Quotes About Wisdom

I feel as though I am swimming in an ocean of knowledge with but a teaspoon to consume it.

Don't you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Aging is an extraordinary process whereby you become the person you always should have been.

As you get older the questions come down to two or three. How long have I got and what am I gonna do with the time I've got left?

knowing nothing can get you humiliated and knowing a little bit can get you killed, but knowing all of it will bring you power.

The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery.

The species greatest harvest ? words.

Samuel Johnson placed this on his watch as a reminder near the end of his life; "The night cometh.

trying to mold one's life around the heroic and deep souls one found in books. Day read as if her whole life depended upon it.

You can't build rich lives simply by reading sermons or following abstract rules. Example is the best teacher. Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed

Life can begin at eighty, but you don't need to wait that long.

You haven't read anything until you've comprehended it.

Patience is a virtue but I don't have the time.

God laughs at people like us.

The more you know, the more you know you don't know and the more you know that you don't know.

If you can not be a poet, be the poem.

All knowledge arises from a relationship between a knower and an object of knowledge.

People are trying to be smart—all I am trying to do is not to be idiotic, but it's harder than most people think.

I think that one should recognize reality even when one doesn't like it; indeed, especially when one doesn't like it.

I must try to remember that a boy's heart is not a man's, and perhaps a teacher must learn from his pupil, too, eh?

To you, Fell. Can't you feel it? Inside you, as it lies inside all the Lera. Know thyself, wolf.

The secret is that nothing knows, the secret is that all life flows, the secret is that thoughts and hearts are different beings, split apart.

they say that wisdom is a woman, and loves a warrior.

Man, who thinks he knows everything. But what does man know...Man cares only for himself, in his fear and hate.