Quotes About Wisdom

Art hath an enemy called ignorance.

First study the science, and then practice the art which is born of that science.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

Wanting to become stronger than everybody else has no meaning.

The highest art of professional management requires the literal ability to 'smell' a 'real fact' from all others.

You are only a young talent, but we don't know how old your soul is.

The butterfly, a cabbage-white, (His honest idiocy of flight) Will never now, it is too late, Master the art of flying straight.

Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

The oldest of the arts and the youngest of the professions.

A Locanian having plucked all the feathers off from a nightingale and seeing what a little body it had, "surely," quoth he, "thou art all voice and nothing else.

Among the language of the American Indians, there is no word for 'art'... For Indians, everything is art... therefore needs no name.

If we learn the art of yielding what must be yielded to the changing present, we can save the best of the past.

Be wise as thou art cruel, do not press My tongue-tied patience with too much disdain: Lest sorrow lend me words and words express, The manner of my pity-wanting pain.

It would be a lowly art that allowed itself to be understood all at once.

It is difficult for a fool's habits to change to selflessness.

The learned understand the reason of art; the unlearned feel the pleasure.

If thou art wise, incline to truth; for truth, not the semblance, remains in its place.

My trade and art is to live.

A picture might be worth a thousand words but a good sentence is worth a thousand windows

True art takes note not merely of form but also of what lies behind.

A book should contain pure discoveries, glimpses of terra firma, though by shipwrecked mariners, and not the art of navigation by those who have never been out of sight of land.

A prince being thus obliged to know well how to act as a beast must imitate the fox and the lion, for the lion cannot protect himself from snares, and the fox cannot defend himself from wolves.

Others abide our question. Thou art free. We ask and ask. Thou smilest and art still, Out-topping knowledge.