Quotes About Wisdom

Teach the art of living well.

The art of being officially old seems to lie in cooperative submission.

Art hath an enemy call'd ignorance .

Making fun of philosophy is really philosophising.

Being a head designer or art director or just even a designer, you need a certain level of experience and maturity.

Anyone who presumes to teach art has no understanding of it.

Intelligent martial arts is not getting in battles and winning them. Intelligent martial arts is avoiding battles because battles use up energy, and you can get hurt no matter who you are.

I imagine that no art has ever been learned from books. fly-fishing is no exception.

Undertake not to teach your equal in the art himself professes; it savors arrogancy.

He who possesses science and art, Possesses religion as well; He who possesses neither of these, Had better have religion.

The message from the hedge-leaves, Heed it, whoso thou art; Under lowly eaves Lives the happy heart.

There is no intellectual exercise which is not ultimately useless.

Common observation and a plain understanding is the source of all art.

Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

I used to believe in the pretty pictures that were all around me, but now I know for sure that I was stupid.

Religion is not what you will get after reading all the scriptures of the world. It is not really what is grasped by the grain. It is a heart grasp.

Laugh, if thou art wise.

Master Sigmund Freud once said that wherever I go, I find a poet has been there before me. This is simply because science either walks or runs but art has wings to fly!

To know how to live is my trade and my art.

In the fine arts, as in many other things, we know well only what we have not learned.

Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.

Let none presume to measure the irregularities of Michael Angelo or Socrates by village scales.

The art of the quoter is to know when to stop.

Be sure, either that thou art stronger than thine enemy, or that thou hast a swifter pair of heels.