Quotes About Wisdom

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.

The common sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Intelligence is not all that important in the exercise of power and is often, in point of fact, useless. Just as a leader doesn't need intelligence, a man in my job doesn't need too much of it either.

God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.

Jesters do often prove prophets.

Neither cast ye your pearls before swine.

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel! O wise young judge, how I do honor thee!

Judges are apt to be naive, simple-minded men.

Give your decision, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.

O judgment! thou are fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason!

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty councils. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

A fox should not be on the jury at a goose's trial.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.

The learned is happy, nature to explore, the fool is happy, that he knows no more.

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.

He laughs best who laughs last.

As the crackling of thorns under a pot, so is the laughter of a fool.

Nothing is more silly than silly laughter.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure.

Better give a shilling than lend and lose half a crown.

Liberality consists less in giving much than in giving at the right moment.

Were the offer made true, I would engage to run again, from beginning to end, the same career of life. All I would ask should be the privilege of an author, to correct, in a second edition, certain errors of the first.