Quotes About Wisdom

Everybody is born so they can learn how to live a good life loving everybody and being nice. Animals already know how to do this, so they don't have to stay as long.

Read everything and be kind.

You trust you'll know what you need to know just when you need to know it.

Why should we remain innocent of what lurks in the shadows? How can we live in the world if we don't understand how dark and brutal it can be?

Keep believing," Nita said, smiling. "He's the only thing that will get us through the bad times. We can't see the whole picture the way He can—thank goodness! Why, I daresay that if we could see our future, it would likely scare us to death. That's why we're told to take one day at a time and not to worry about tomorrow.

Förr hade jag hemliga drömmar att det vore möjligt att lägga ihop allting, så att allting blev färdigt, tillslutet. Att till sist kunna säga: så var det, det var så det gick till, detta är hela historien. Men det vore ju mot bättre vetande.

But that's life. That's what you learn from; when things happen. Especially at your age. You just have to take it in and remember to think afterwards and not forget and never grow bitter.

You don't remember what you never fail to do, that is common knowledge,

Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.

All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth

The good want power, but to weep barren tears.The powerful goodness want: worse need for them.The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom;And all best things are thus confused with ill.

In a drama of the highest order there is little food for censure or hatred it teaches rather self-knowledge and self-respect.

In fact, the truth cannot be communicated until it is perceived.

a single word even may be a spark of inextinguishable thought

The wise want love; and those who love want wisdom

The being called God...bears every mark of a veil woven by philosophical conceit, to hide the ignorance of philosophers even from themselves. They borrow the threads of its texture from the anthropomorphism of the vulgar.

Speaking the wisdom once they could not think, looking emotions once they feared to feel, and changed to all which once they dared not be, yet being now, made earth like heaven.

He gave man speech, and speech created thought, which is the measure of the universe.

We have more moral, political and historical wisdom, than we know how to reduce into practice; we

Beware, O Man - for knowledge must to thee, Like the great flood to Egypt, ever be.

beware, whilst you assume the softness of the dove, to forget not the cunning of the serpent.

The more we study, the more we discover our ignorance

Poets and philosophers are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.

If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, what doubts should we have concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses?