Quotes About Wisdom

There's a little truth in all jive, and a little jive in all truth.

The more we know the better we forgive. Whoever feels deeply, feels for all who live.

I like things that are educational and educational. I like things that are inspirational.

Seek a reality deeper than the changing forms.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

For the correct analogy for the mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

We should always choose our books as God chooses our friends, just a bit beyond us, so that we have to do our level best to keep up with them.

Whatever humans have learned had to be learned as a consequence only of trial and error experience. Humans have learned only through mistakes.

Fear is an instructor of great sagacity, and the herald of all revolutions.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

For God's sake give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself!

Birds make great sky-circles of their freedom. How do they learn it? They fall and falling, they're given wings.

The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall foul upon the very thing we search for, without finding it.

I had a very wise mother. She always kept books that were my grade level in our house.

The only value of wasted time is knowledge.

A sense of humor is the ability to understand a joke-and that the joke is oneself.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

You have probably had past lives where you were in better stages of mind than you are in now.

Without going out of my door, I can know all things on earth. Without looking out of my window I could know the ways of heaven. The farther one travels, The less one knows, the less one really knows.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

Knowledge can communicated but not wisdom.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.