Quotes About Wisdom

However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue.

Genius and virtue are to be more often found clothed in gray than in peacock bright.

Old age adds to the respect due to virtue, but it takes nothing from the contempt inspired by vice; it whitens only the hair.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

Cheapness is a great virtue.

Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue.

Generosity is a virtue, but unlimited generosity is a fast route to bankruptcy.

Back when I was an idealistic 18-year-old on my way to Chicago, I might have believed that being on the side of virtue would guarantee a good outcome. These many years later, I know better.

Failing to see the point is not a virtue.

For a long time, I thought that I was an enlightened parent by virtue of being an enlightened person. What a fool.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Tact is one of the first mental virtues, the absence of it is fatal to the best talent.

Chinese culture has a lot of virtues that are tremendously valuable to not only us as Asian-Americans, but also the world in general.

I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.

I'm all for education - in fact, I have spent my career extolling its virtues.

Would not obeying to my mother's warnings, who is at least 25 years older than me, be returning to the past? And rebelling against her would mean ruining my mother's, who, I am convinced that, is a virtuous high woman, heart and evaluations. I do not find this right, either.

The sage belongs to the same obsolete repertory as the virtuous maiden and the enlightened monarch.

It may not have the virtuous ring of the golden rule, but the maxim 'never say never' is one of the most important in ethics.

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

We too, through lack of knowledge and of sufficiently mature reflection, mistook the visible outward appearance of the phenomenon for the phenomenon itself.

It's not in either my personal or business interest to be a highly visible person.

The best vision is insight.

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.