Quotes About Wisdom

I teach that all men are mad.

Some of the finest moral intuitions come to quite humble people. The visiting of lofty ideas doesn't depend on formal schooling. Think of those Galilean peasants.

Conviction without experiences makes for harshness.

Trusting our intuition often saves us from disaster.

Instinct is the nose of the mind.

Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not always tell us what to do, it always cautions us what not to do.

I never believe facts; Canning said nothing was so fallacious as facts, except figures.

We should chiefly depend not upon that department of the soul which is most superficial and fallible (our reason), but upon that department that is deep and sure, which is instinct.

I make all my decisions on intuition. I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to find the spear. That is intellect.

Instinct is intelligence incapable of self-consciousness.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Reason, ruling alone, is a force confining; and passion, unattended, is a flame that burns to its own destruction.

Nothing reaches the intellect before making its appearance in the senses.

Well-bred instinct meets reason halfway.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

No one is more liable to make mistakes than the man who acts only on reflection.

It is wisdom to believe the heart.

Great thoughts always come from the heart.

Intuition is given only to him who has undergone long preparation to receive it.

Many a man gets weary of clamping down on his rough impulses, which if given occasional release would encourage the living of life with salt in it, in place of dust.

It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.

The intellect is always fooled by the heart.

Lord Birkenhead is very clever but sometimes his brains go to his head. All zeal runs down. What replaces it? Intellectualism.

The highest intellects, like the tops of mountains, are the first to catch and to reflect the dawn.