Quotes About Wisdom

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Here the heartMay give a useful lesson to the head,And Learning wiser grow without his books.

War is a game which were their subjects wise, kings would not play at.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Meditation here May think down hours to moments. Here the heart May give an useful lesson to the head, And learning wiser grow without his books....

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more.

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.

Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan His work in vain; God is His own interpreter, And He will make it plain.

Happy the bard, (if that fair name belong To him that blends no fable with his song) Whose lines uniting, by an honest art, The faithful monitors and poets part, Seek to delight, that they may mend mankind, And while they captivate, inform the mind. Still happier, if he till a thankful soil, And fruit reward his honorable toil: But happier far who comfort those that wait To hear plain truth at Judah's hallow'd gate

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells In heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. Knowledge—a rude, unprofitable mass, The mere materials with which Wisdom builds, Till smoothed, and squared, and fitted to its place— Does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

Absolute brain size does not tell you everything or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations.

Go forth under the open sky, and list to Nature's teachings.

the famous remark of Hegel that 'the owl of Minerva takes flight at dusk'"—Hegel's view that wisdom comes only in hindsight.

Where Is It Written That To Be Successful In Business You Have To Be Smart?")

After his seven years of study, the young Muhammadan binds his turban upon a head almost as well filled with the things which appertain to these branches of knowledge as the young man raw from Oxford—he will talk as fluently about Socrates and Aristotle, Plato and Hippocrates, Galen and Avicenna; (alias Sokrat, Aristotalis, Alflatun, Bokrat, Jalinus and Bu Ali Sena);

quoting a Persian proverb, "those once bitten by a snake fear even a twisted rope.

Your entitlement is to the deed alone, never to its results. Do not make the results of an action your motive. Do not be attached to inaction. Having renounced rewards resulting from actions, wise men endowed with discrimination are freed from the bondage of birth and go to the Regions of Eternal Happiness.'89

In the course of this, in what seemed to many of its wisest minds an act of wilful self-harm, the English had unilaterally cut themselves off from the most powerful institution in Europe, so

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

It seems to me a proof of the small advance our race has made in true wisdom, that we find it so hard to give up doing anything we have meant to do.

Even animals know better than to foul their own nest