Quotes About Wisdom

Books make great gifts because they're everybody's favorite things.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.

The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

It is easier to develop great power than it is to know how to use it wisely.

I cannot truly imagine a truly great person who hasn't suffered.

If thinking is your fate, revere this fate with divine honour and sacrifice to it the best, the most beloved

As I get older, I don't aggressively pursue songs. All the great ones just appear.

There is a glory in a great mistake.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.

To a great experience one thing is essential, an experiencing nature.

He who would be a great soul in the future, must be a great soul now.

It is a great art to be superior to others without letting them know it.

I said I was the greatest, not the smartest.

The great poet is always a seer, seeing less with the eyes of the body than he does with the eyes of the mind.

The great wisdom for writers, perhaps for everybody, is to come to understand to be at one with their own tempo.

By all implies marry if you get a great wife/husband, you are going to be pleased. If you get a bad a single, you are going to become a philosopher.

As it is the mark of great minds to say many things in a few words, so it is that of little minds to use many words to say nothing.

All great authors are seers.

Books make great gifts because they can unveil hidden secrets.

The truly great ones rely on substance, and not on surface, hold on to the fruit, and not to the flower.