Quotes About Wisdom

All genius is a conquering of chaos and mystery.

The great man of science, unless he is also a philosopher, … deserves the title of genius as little as the man of action.

Experience is an excellent spyglass; but it has this drawback, that Prejudice very often clouds the lens.

The old man was silent: the truth suggested itself to him with the boy's innocent answer. He was tied to a bed of dried leaves in the corner of a wattle hut, but he had not wholly forgotten what the ways of the world were like.

You are young enough! — and yet, I don't know; it is a popular fallacy that time counts by years. One is old according to the style of one's life, not the length of it.

Nobody, except that wise woman, Rosa Bonheur, ever discerned that animals only do not speak because they are endowed with a discretion far and away over that of blatant, bellowing, gossiping, garrulous Man. "Only a dog," indeed I However, the phrase has a pretty, modest, graceful look, so let it stand. Men never are taken at their own valuation by others; and so I suppose dogs cannot expect to be either.

O nations! closely should you treasure your great men, for by them alone will the future know of you. Flanders in her generations has been wise. In his life she glorified this greatest of her sons, and in his death she magnifies his name. But her wisdom is very rare.

Note too that a faithful study of the liberal arts humanizes character and permits it not to be cruel.

We can learn even from our enemies.

He who lives well, lives hidden.

The rest who does not know?

Time is generally the best doctor.

How little you know about the age you live in if you think that honey is sweeter than cash in hand.

Fas est ab hoste doceri. One should learn even from one's enemies.

True understanding is unattainable without both love and detachment,

Wordsworth's called The Tables Turned: Sweet is the lore which nature brings: Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

A female magician named Catherine Trianon, who lived together 'as man and wife' with another cunning-woman, was described as having more learning 'in the tip of her finger' than others acquired in a lifetime. When her house was searched in 1680 twenty-five manuscript volumes on the occult sciences were found.

When a man ain't got no ideas of his own," said Scipio, "he'd ought to be kind o' careful who he borrows 'em from.

So I perceived a new example of the old truth, that the letter means nothing until the spirit gives it life.

We are not to judge thrift solely by the test of saving or spending. If one spends what he should prudently save, that certainly is to be deplored. But if one saves what he should prudently spend, that is not necessarily to be commended. A wise balance between the two is the desired end.

Of all the things I lost, I miss my mind the most.

Advertising is like learning -- a little is a dangerous thing.

Milyen nagy szüksége van a hazának azokra, okoskodott, nem - van másik! -, fütyörészett Esti, akik fütyülnek rá.

And she's got brains enough for two, which is the exact quantity the girl who marries you will need.