Quotes About Wisdom

I have learnt a good deal from my own talk.

In Maine we have a saying that there's no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence.

Speech is silvern, silence is golden.

They think that they shall be heard for their much speaking.

They understand but little who understand only what can be explained.

Faith is our direct link to universal wisdom, reminding us that we know more than we have heard or read or studied that we have only to look, listen, and trust the love and wisdom of the Universal Spirit working through us all.

Strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; morals, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

There are more men ennobled by study than by nature.

Against stupidity the very gods Themselves contend in vain.

The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.

That they can strengthen through the empowerment of others is essential wisdom often gathered by women.

Since everything is in our heads, we better not lose them.

Man never rises to great truths without enthusiasm.

Great things are done more through courage than through wisdom.

The man who can own up to his error is greater than he who merely knows how to avoid making it.

I have made mistakes, but I have never made the mistake of claiming that I never made one.

If at first you succeed, don't take any more stupid chances.

I have always observed that to succeed in the world one should appear like a fool but be wise.

One swallow alone does not make the summer.

The pursuit of the perfect, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Tact is the intelligence of the heart.

Silence is not always tact, and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think.