Quotes About Wisdom

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Labor is blossoming or dancing where The body is not bruised to pleasure soul Nor beauty born out of its own despair, Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.

The Coming of Wisdom with Time Though leaves are many, the root is one; Through all the lying days of my youth I swayed my leaves and flowers in the sun; Now I may wither into the truth.

When I think of all the books I have read, wise words heard, anxieties given to parents, ... of hopes I have had, all life weighed in the balance of my own life seems to me a preparation for something that never happens.

I made my song a coat Covered with embroideries Out of old mythologies From heel to throat; But the fools caught it, Wore it in the world's eyes As though they'd wrought it. Song, let them take it For there's more enterprise In walking naked.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

The fall of man is the result of the blinding of the 'eye of the heart' (chashm-i dil or 'ayn al-qalb), which alone sees with the vision of gnosis.

Careful with fire" is good advice we know."Careful with words" is ten times doubly so.

Old age isa flight of smallcheeping birdsskimmingbare treesabove a snow glaze.

He loved the way libraries smelled.

My favourite definition of "Intellectual" is: "Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence."

It is by attempting to reach the top in a single leap that so much misery is caused in the world.

Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass.

No, I'm no enemy to learning it hurts not me.

Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.

Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves 'em still two fools.

Defer not till tomorrow to be wise, tomorrow's sun to thee may never rise.

Every man plays the fool once in his lif marry is playing the fool all one's life, but to marry is to playing the fool all one's life long.

God gives to every man virtue, temper, and understanding.

Whoever keeps an open ear For tattlers will be sure to hear The trumpet of contention.

Knowledge and Wisdom, far from being one, Have oft-times no connexion, Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

But war's a game, which, were their subjects wise,Kings would not play at.

Shine by the side of every path we treadWith such a luster, he that runs may read.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much wisdom is humble that it knows no more.