Quotes About Wisdom

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Old foxes want no tutors.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

The only knowledge perfectly acquired is the knowledge of our limitation.

God does not always move us when we desire to be moved, and everything that moves us deeply is not God.

But the wisest person in the room, or around the negotiating table, knows enough not to fall prey to naïve realism and simply assume that meanings are fixed, and shared

To each his suff'rings: all are men,Condemn'd alike to groan,The tender for another's pain,Th' unfeeling for his own.Yet ah! why should they know their fate,Since sorrow never comes too late,And happiness too swiftly flies?Thought would destroy their paradise.No more; where ignorance is bliss,'Tis folly to be wise.

Where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise. - Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Yet, ah! why should they know their fate, Since sorrow never comes too late, And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their Paradise. No more;—where ignorance is bliss, 'Tis folly to be wise.

From hence, ye Beauties, undeceiv'd, Know one false step is ne'er retriev'd, And be with caution bold. Not all that tempts your wand'ring eyes And heedless hearts, is lawful prize; Nor all, that glisters, gold.

He looked at me intently, from what seemed behind the veil of a grave experience. Then slowly and prophetically, he said the scariest thing I'd ever heard: "Because the answer to a heartfelt question, Jack, will always break your heart.

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

It is important to keep old things, he insisted, because it was through them alone that new things could be judged.

Some truths hit harder than others.

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

Being smart spoils a lot of things, doesn't it?

We can only learn so much and live.

I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.

Try to learn something about everything and everything about something.

To a clear eye the smallest fact is a window through which the infinite may be seen.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law