Quotes About Wisdom

If others had not been foolish, we should be so.

To create a little flower is the labor of ages.

Good is the passive that obeys reason; Evil is the active springing from Energy. ... The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. ... Dip him in the river who loves water. ... A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. ... The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. ... Prisons are built with stones of law, brothels with bricks of religion.

The selfish, smiling fool, and the sullen, frowning fool shall be both thought wise, that they may be a rod.

Thousands of little boys and girls raising their innocent hands. Now like a mighty wild they raise to heaven the voice of song, Or like harmonious thunderings the seats of heaven among: Beneath them sit the aged man, wise guardians of the poor. Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door.

What is the price of Experience? do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price Of all that a man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Wisdom is sold in the desolate market where none come to buy, And in the wither'd field where the farmer plows for bread in vain.

I am really sorry to see my Countrymen trouble themselves about Politics. If Men were Wise, the Most arbitrary Princes could not hurt them. If they are not wise, the Freest Government is compell'd to be a Tyranny. Princes appear to me to be Fools. Houses of Commons & Houses of Lords appear to me to be fools; they seem to me to be something Else besides Human life.

The Bat that flits at close of Eve Has left the Brain that wont Believe The Owl that calls upon the Night Speaks the Unbelievers fright

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit?   Or wilt thou go ask the Mole:   Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod?   Or Love in a golden bowl?

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Neither youth nor childhood is folly or incapacity

And we are put on earth a little space, That we may learn to bear the beams of love...

God forbid that Truth should be confined to Mathematical Demonstration! He who does not know truth at sight is unworthy of Her Notice.

El camino del exceso conduce al palacio de la sabiduría.

In a time of dearth, come forth with weight and measure.

Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod? Or Love in a golden bowl?

I have teken refuge in the doctrine that advises one not to seek tranquility in certainty but in permanently suspended judgement.

She was happy. Her father had always told her to make sure and recognise that state when it arrived, and acknowledge it. 'It's like money in the bank, old girl', he would say ...

Any fool can "obey" an order,' Hamo said, darkly. 'The clever thing is to interpret it.

Happenstance intersecting with received wisdom produces something entirely new and significant.

we have to accept the lives we've lived. Not imagine lives we might have lived.

The greatest sin is what brings about the heart's death. It dies only by not knowing God. This is what is named "ignorance.

Whoever enters the Way without a guide will take a hundred years to travel a two-day journey. . . . – Rumi (p. 123)

The first method for estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him. NICCOLÒ MACHIAVELLI The Prince Standard year circa 1513