Quotes About Wisdom

A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

The weak in courage is strong in cunning.

He who replies to words of doubt doth put the light of knowledge out.

To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.

In the universe, there are things that are known, and things that are unknown, and in between them, there are doors.

In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.

May God us keep From Single vision and Newton's sleep.

But when he has done this, let him not say that he knows better than his master, for he only holds a candle in sunshine.

My work is visionary or imaginative. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care...

That which can be made Explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

Enthusiastic admiration is the first principle of knowledge and the last

The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please. - Auguries of Innocence

And we are put on earth a little space, that we may learn to bear the beams of love; And these black bodies and this sunburnt face Is but a cloud, and like a shady grove.

He who loves feels love descend into him and if he has wisdom may perceive it from the Poetic Genius which is the Lord.

Eternity is in love with the productions of time. The busy bee has no time for sorrow. The hours of folly are measur'd by the clock, but of wisdom: no clock can measure.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

The fox condemns the trap, not himself.

The Learned, who strive to ascend into Heaven by means of learning, appear to Children like dead horses, when repelled by the celestial spheres.

Listen to the fool's reproach! It is a kingly title!

The Errors of a Wise Man make your Rule Rather than the Perfections of a Fool

Folly is an endless maze; Tangled roots perplex her ways;

I care not whether a man is Good or Evil; all that I care Is whether he is a Wise man or a Fool. Go! put off Holiness, And put on Intellect; or my thund'rous hammer shall drive thee To wrath, which thou condemnest, till thou obey my voice.