Quotes About Wisdom

I do not know; nor will I vainly question Those pages of the mystic book which hold The story still untold, But without rash conjecture or suggestion Turn its last leaves in reverence and good heed, Until "The End" I read.

Stronger than steel is the sword of the Spirit; Swifter than arrows, the light of the truth.

But maybe the best way to describe Votto is that he's baseball's most cerebral hitter, the Einstein of the batter's box.

We love instinctively, but we love well because we've learned how.

Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.

Es cualquier libro discreto (que si cansa, de hablar deja) un amigo que aconseja y que reprende en secreto.

Todo es vana arquitectura, porque dijo un sabio un día que a los sastres se debía la mitad de la hermosura.

I only do what my gut tells me to. I think it's smart to listen to other people's advice, but at the end of the day, you're the only one who can tell you what's right for you.

Watch out for men who are on speaking terms with the Almighty.

Oh honey, there's nothing new on this earth when it comes to what men and women do in the dark. First love is when you learn. So you've learned that love can open you up like spring sun on a wee primrose. Good. Remember that. You know how to love.

Old women can see through walls.

History is not only a particular branch of knowledge, but a particular mode and method of knowledge in other branches.

Neither an enlightened philosophy, nor all the political wisdom of Rome, nor even the faith and virtue of the Christians availed against the incorrigible tradition of antiquity. Something was wanted, beyond all the gifts of reflection and experience -- a faculty of self government and self control, developed like its language in the fibre of a nation, and growing with its growth.

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others.

There are truths so prosaic, so dense, so dull, that one can hardly state them without suggesting the idea of something subtler or more interesting beyond.

Simplicity is the first thing that is lost, and the last that is regained.

The danger of reading too much is that we shall have only the thoughts of others. The danger of reading too little or none at all, that we shall have none but our own.

Although ink was not invented to express our real feelings, I improve my first stoppage between two trains to thank you for three such delightful days in London. It was a shame to take up so much of your busy time, and to persecute you with the serpentine wisdom. I did not wish to turn into bitterness the sweetest thing on earth, but I fancied that there are things good to be observed in your great position which nobody will tell you if you do not hear them from the most wicked of your friends.

History is not a burden on the memory but an illumination of the soul.

Learn as much by writing as by reading.

How do you know so much about everything was asked of a very wise and intelligent man and the answer was 'By never being afraid or ashamed to ask questions as to anything of which I was ignorant.

The power of Thought,--the magic of the Mind!

Pythagoras, Locke, Socrates -- but pages might be filled up, as vainly as before, with the sad usage of all sorts of sages, who in his life-time, each was deemed a bore! The loftiest minds outrun their tardy ages.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.