Quotes About Wisdom

To reform a world, to reform a nation, no wise man will undertake; and all but foolish men know, that the only solid, though a far slower reformation, is what each begins and perfects on himself.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

A well-written life is almost as rare as one well-spent.

Wondrous indeed is the virtue of a true Book.

Great men taken up in any way are profitable company. We cannot look, however imperfectly, upon a great man without gaining something by him.

Keine zauberwirkende Rune ist wunderbarer als ein Buch. Bücher sind das auserlesene Besitztum der Menschen.

Great Men, taken up in any way, are profitable company.

The greatest university is a collection of books.

Books are a triviality. Life alone is great.

No magic Rune is stranger than a Book. All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Surely of all 'rights of man', this right of the ignorant man to be guided by the wiser, to be, gently or forcibly, held in the true course by him, is the indisputablest.

Akan jadi apakah kita, bergantung pada apa yang kita baca setelah semua profesor menyelesaikan urusannya dengan kita

Counsel dwells not under the plumed hat.

But indeed nobody knows what inarticulate traditions, remnants of old wisdom, priceless though quite anonymous, survive in many modern things that still have life in them.

All that Mankind has done, thought, gained or been is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of Books. They are the chosen possession of men.

Of all the things which man can do or make here below, by far the most momentous, wonderful, and worthy are the things we call books.

We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing wildly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves.

To the wisest of them, what we must call the wisest, man is properly an Accident under the sky.

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

Ceea ce devenim depinde in mare masura de ce citim.

new-got gold is said to burn the pockets till it be cast forth into circulation, much more may new truth.

Dante Alighieri] is world-great not because he is world-wide but because he is world-deep.