Quotes About Wisdom

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

LIFE: Love, Intelligence, Fun, Evolution in that order.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

Oh, Love is the crooked thing, there is nobody wise enough to find out all that is in it, for he will be thinking about love til the stars run away and the shadows eaten the moon...

Wisdom and love have nothing to do with each other. Wisdom is staying alive, survival. Youre wise if you dont stick your finger in the light plug. Love -- youll stick your finger in anything.

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left.

Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

Oh dear Pan and all the other Gods of this place, grant that I may be beautiful inside. Let all my external possessions be in friendly harmony with what is within. May I consider the wise man rich. As for gold, let me have as much as a moderate man could bear and carry with him.

Ignorance never settle a question.

A woman has got to love a bad man once or twice in her life to be thankful for a good one.

Would you, my dear young friends, like to be inside with the five wise virgins, or outside, alone and in the dark with the five foolish ones?

There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self.

Love is not blind - it sees more, not less. But because it sees more, it is willing to see less.

Love is not a feeling. Love is an action, an activity. . .Genuine love implies commitment and the exercise of wisdom. . . . love as the will to extend oneself for the purpose of nurturing one's own or another's spiritual growth.....true love is an act of will that often transcends ephemeral feelings of love or cathexis, it is correct to say, 'Love is as love does'.

Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with us

First love is a kind of vaccination which saves a man from catching the complaint the second time.

Life is so generous a giver, but we, judging its gifts by the covering, cast them away as ugly or heavy or hard. Remove the covering and you will find beneath it a living splendor, woven of love, by wisdom, with power.

For you to ask advice on the rules of love is no better than to ask advice on the rules of madness

If we seek the pleasures of love, passion should be occasional and common sense continual.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

For truth has such a face and such a mien, as to be loved needs only to be seen.

Serve, Love, Give, Purify, Meditate, Realize.