Quotes About Wisdom

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

He was a man who wrote, who interpreted the world. Wisdom grew out of being handed just the smallest sliver of emotion. A glance could lead to paragraphs of theory.

Who, under pressing temptations to lie, adheres to truth, nor to the profane betrays aught of a sacred trust, is near the summit of wisdom and virtue.

Making wise decisions requires more than incentives. It requires wisdom.

One might reasonably wonder whether any amount of failed results would cause liberals to reevaluate the wisdom - and even fairness - of their proposals.

The young fancy that their follies are mistaken by the old for happiness. The old fancy that their gravity is mistaken by the young for wisdom.

Light of compassion and the light of wisdom that arises from our deepest and truest nature surpasses all other lights.

Armageddon. The slaughter of humanity. An atomic war no one wanted, but which no one had the wisdom to avoid.

The key to all sciences is unquestionably the question mark. To the word How? we owe most of our greatest discoveries. Wisdom in life may perhaps consist in asking ourselves on all occasions: Why?

Wisdom is the highest position a man can attain!

No sublime wisdom asks to be worshipped or served; the greatest and the most honourable masters are those who refuse to have slaves!

As children must have the hooping cough, the college youth must pass through the stage of conceit in which he holds in slight esteem the wisdom of the best.

Wisdom comes only with innocence.

The wisdom of the ignorant somewhat resembles the instinct of animals; it is diffused in but a very narrow sphere, but within the circle it acts with vigor, uniformity, and success.

Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Two sources of success are known: wisdom and effort; make them both thine own, if thou wouldst haply rise.

Consistently wise decisions can only be made by those whose wisdom is constantly challenged.

What a new face courage puts on everything. - Ralph Waldo Emerson To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old.

I will wait and watch till the day of David at last shall be finished, and wisdom no more fox-faced, and the blood gets back its flame.

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

In the Art, Science, Philosophy and Mystic rests the temple of Wisdom.

We see the wisdom of Solon's remark, that no more good must be attempted than the nation can bear.

Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit; And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.

The universe is complicated and we're not going to get it all in one night or one incarnation or one infinity.