Quotes About Wisdom

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

It is not fit that every man should travel it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

It is better to drink of deep griefs than to taste shallow pleasures.

He who lives wisely to himself and to his own heart looks at the busy world through the loop-holes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

If we wish to know the force of human genius, we should read Shakespeare. If we wish to see the insignificance of human learning, we may study his commentators.

Anyone who has passed though the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

His sayings are generally like women's letters; all the pith is in the postscript.

To be happy, we must be true to nature, and carry our age along with us.

To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Learning is its own exceeding great reward.

Reading is perhaps the greatest pleasure you will have in life; the one you will think of longest, and repent of least.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and endure very much

Half the business of modern education is taken up in learning not to be ignorant; a process peculiarly unfavorable both to strength of mind and pregnancy of imagination...

Words are the only things that last for ever.

The common-place critic . . . believes that truth lies in the middle, between the extremes of right and wrong.

Anyone who has passed through the regular gradations of a classical education, and is not made a fool by it, may consider himself as having had a very narrow escape.

Books let us into their souls and lay open to us the secrets of our own.

We affect to laugh at the folly of those who put faith in nostrums, but are willing to see ourselves whether there is any truth in them.

shook a cigarette from my pack and offered one to Danny who wagged his head negatively. "I didn't think you could finger her for me, Danny," I said, lighting up. "But you've been around a while now. Tell me who the old-timers are. Put me wise to someone who knows the score." Danny

Aging is an inevitable process. I surely wouldn't want to grow younger. The older you become, the more you know your bank account of knowledge is much richer.

Who would be a more suitable leader of a city or more worthy to rule over people than a philosopher? It is appropriate for him (if he really is a philosopher) to be wise, self-controlled, magnanimous, a judge of just and proper things, able to accomplish what he sets out to do, and able to endure pain. In addition to these things, he should be bold, fearless, able to face things that seem terrible, and also a benefactor, honest, and humane.