Quotes About Wisdom

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.

Who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious--is a genius or a hero.

The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom.--Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius.

He knows not how to speak who cannot be silent.

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps, are all a clear because to a clear why.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.

The greatest of characters, no doubt, would be he, who, free of all trifling accidental helps, could see objects through one grand immutable medium, always at hand, and proof against illusion and time, reflecting every object in its true shape and color through all the fluctuation of things.

He, who boldly interposes between a merciless censor and his prey, is a man of vigor: and he who, mildly wise, without wounding, convinces him of his error, commands our veneration.

Who will sacrifice nothing, and enjoy all, is a fool.

Who makes quick use of the moment is a genius of prudence.

Life must not be squandered. A person got from life what he put ino it.

What do years have to do with this feeling we have? They're just... just numbers.

Youth isn't always all it's touted to be.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

What counts for most people in investing is not how much they know, but rather how realistically they define what they don't know.

Common sense is the heart of investing and business management.

It is about the elephants - it was they who whispered to me and taught me how to listen.

Every year there's a few more things I'm not sure of. I've decided that a wide-ranging uncertainty is the mark of the true maturity of man.

Dangerous thing, giving humanity the knowledge of good and evil. And the capacity to make the wrong choice more often than not.

As my late mother famously observed, the one thing to be said for growing old is that every year there are a few more things I don't have to give a rat's ass about.

She made love with the freshness of an impatient virgin and the ingenuity of a sex-scarred whore.

Books, books, books in all their aspects, in form and spirit, their physical selves and what reading releases from their hieroglyphic pages, in their sight and smell, in their touch and feel to the questing hand, and in the intellectual music which they sing to the thoughtful brain and loving heart, books are to me the best of all symbols, the realest of all reality.

No university in the world has ever risen to greatness without a correspondingly great library ... When this is no longer true, then will our civilization have come to an end.