Quotes About Wisdom

Woe to that land that's govern'd by a child!

They say an old man is twice a child

If thou wert my fool, nuncle, I'ld have thee beaten for being old before thy time. LEAR. How's that? FOOL. Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

The more pity that fools may not speak wisely what wise men do foolishly.

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile.

William Shakespeare

But you are wise, Or else you love not, for to be wise and love Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

Of all knowledge, the wise and good seek mostly to know themselves.

The common curse of mankind, - folly and ignorance

Come on then, I will swear to study so To know the thing I am forbid to know - Berowne

Soft you; a word or two before you go. I have done the state some service, and they know't.— No more of that.—I pray you, in your letters, When you shall these unlucky deeds relate, Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate, Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely, but too well; Of one not easily jealous, but

Tis not a year or two shows us a man. They are all but stomachs, and we all but food; They eat us hungerly, and when they are full, They belch us.

William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosopher that could endure the toothache patiently.

Cucullus non facit monachum; that's as much to say, as I wear not motley in my brain.

What time o' day? ROSALINE: The hour that fools should ask.

O, they have lived long on the alms-basket of words. I marvel thy master hath not eaten thee for a word; for thou art not so long by the head as honorificabilitudinitatibus: thou art easier swallowed than a flap-dragon.

Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes, His mansion and his titles, in a place From whence himself does fly? He loves us not. He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight,             Her young ones in her nest, against the owl. All is the fear and nothing is the love, As little is the wisdom, where the flight So runs against all reason

The oldest hath borne most; we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

He that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death.

They stumble that run fast.

Kaç?n?lmaz felaketler kar??s?nda s?zlanmak, gülmek kadar aptalcad?r.

Dolor moderado indica amor; dolor en exceso, pura necedad.

The wine-cup is the little silver well, Where truth, if truth there be Doth dwell.