Quotes About Wisdom

Let us love temperately, things violent last not.

Well, I'm not a violent person. You have to back off. People sometimes will try you and try you until you try not to, but you have to react. Normally, I just walk away.

When I was younger, if I got into arguments, I'd become aggressive and violent, but I learnt the hard way that was only going to end negatively.

The greatest texts, I think, first dazzle, then with careful rereading, they instruct. I have learned from Virginia Woolf more than I even know how to articulate.

Men are most virile and most attractive between the ages of 35 and 55. Under 35 a man has too much to learn, and I don't have time to teach him.

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

It's obvious, but perhaps worth saying, that happiness has virtually nothing to do with the state of your intellect.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

Patience is a virtue; virtue is a grace.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

Silence is the virtue of fools.

The superior man does not, even for the space of a single meal, act contrary to virtue. In moments of haste, he cleaves to it. In seasons of danger, he cleaves to it.

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than education without natural ability.

The endeavor to understand is the first and only basis of virtue.

To equate IQ with human virtue or wisdom or character or a whole variety of other of the most important measures of a value of a person is ridiculous.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Solitude can be used well by very few people. They who do must have a knowledge of the world to see the foolishness of it, and enough virtue to despise all the vanity.

Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

Impatience is a virtue.

The sciences have ever been the surest guides to virtue.

Blessedness is not the reward of virtue but virtue itself.

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

Superior virtue must be the fruit of superior intelligence.