Quotes About Wisdom

Life is a pure flame, and we live by an invisible Sun within us. A small fire sufficeth for life, great flames seemed too little after death, while men vainly affected precious pyres, and to burn like Sardanapalus , but the wisedom of funerall Law found the folly of prodigall blazes, and reduced undoing fires unto the rule of sober obsequies, wherein few could be so mean as not to provide wood, pitch, a mourner, and an Urne.

These are O Lord the humble desires of my most reasonable ambition and all I dare call happinesse on earth: wherein I set no rule or limit to thy hand or providence. Dispose of me according to the wisdome of thy pleasure. Thy will bee done, though in my owne undoing.

methinks we yet discourse in Plato's den, and are but embryon philosophers.

If no other knowledge deserves to be called useful but that which helps to enlarge our possessions or to raise our station in society, then Mythology has no claim to the appellation.

Never did man make worse use of his wits than thou hast done.

But age became him as it did the oaks and the cedars.

Education is mostly about institutions and getting tickets stamped; learning is what we do for ourselves. When we're lucky, they go together. If I had to choose, I'd take learning.

Always" and "never" are not words that have much meaning in literary study. For one thing, as soon as something seems to always be true, some wise guy will come along and write something to prove that it's not.

no human wisdom is more reliable than the actual history in which God is omnipresent.

One need not disavow the gifts of intellect in giving thought to their Giver

I now understand that I would never have been able to become a plausible critic of the absurdities of modern consciousness until I myself had experienced them. I did not become an orthodox believer or theologian until after I tried out most of the errors long rejected by Christianity. If my first forty years were spent hungering for meaning in life, the last forty have been spent in being fed. If the first forty were prodigal, the last forty have been a homecoming.

If there are no books. There is no civilization.

To learn what I know I have burned more midnight oil than you have drunk wine.

The smaller your reality, the more convinced you are that you know everything.

Big Truth, once understood and assimilated, always modifies your intent, and invariably leads to personal change.

The quality of your being expresses the correctness of your understanding. Think

A word spoken in season, at the right moment, is the mother of ages.

Experience is the best of schoolmasters, only the school fees are heavy

Be not a slave of words.

With stupidity and sound digestion man may front much.

Secrecy is the element of all goodness even virtue, even beauty is mysterious.

Old age is not a matter for sorrow. It is matter for thanks if we have left our work done behind us.

No man sees far; the most see no farther than their noses.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.