Quotes About Wisdom

Of writing well the source and fountainhead is wise thinking.

Whatever your advice, make it brief.

Virtue is an angel, but she is a blind one, and must ask Knowledge to show her the pathway that leads to her goal.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.

A human being is not attaining his full heights until he is educated.

A house without books is like a room without windows.

Give me a house furnished with books rather than furniture! Both, if you can, but books at any rate!

Ignorance breeds monsters to fill up the vacancies of the soul that are unoccupied by the verities of knowledge.

If any man seeks greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

It is well to think well: it is divine to act well.

Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them. It is a wrong to his family. He cheats them! Children learn to read by being in the presence of books. The love of knowledge comes with reading and grows upon it.

Seek not greatness, but seek truth and you will find both.

The most ignorant are the most conceited.

A house without books is like a room without windows. No man has a right to bring up his children without surrounding them with books, if he has the means to buy them.

A mugwump is a person educated beyond his intellect.

To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know and the best philosophy is to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot; bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it, whatever it is; and despise affectation.

By deafness one gains in one respect more than one loses one misses more nonsense than sense.

Prognostics do not always prove prophecies—at least the wisest prophets make sure of the event first.

Mr. [Thomas] Gray the poet has often observed to me that if a man were to form a Book of what he had seen and heard himself it must in whatever hands prove a most useful and entertaining one.

A bystander often sees more of the game than those that play

I hold visions to be wisdom, and would deny them only to ambition, which exists only by the destruction of visions of everybody else

Hablaron de cosas muy triviales, con perfecta discreción de personas maduras.