Quotes About Wisdom

There is no qualification for government but virtue and wisdom, actual or presumptive.

The greatest statesmen are those able at once to preserve and reform.

Those who always labour, can have no true judgment.

I was, indeed, aware that a jealous, ever-waking vigilance, to guard the treasure of our liberty, not only from invasion, but from decay and corruption, was our best wisdom and our first duty.

_Stulti est dixisse, Non putaram_.

Man is a most unwise, and a most wise, being. The individual is foolish. The multitude, for the moment, is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and when time is given to it, as a species it almost always acts right.

Intellect stood aside and informed him of this fact.

We Americans have many grave problems to solve, many threatening evils to fight, and many deeds to do, if, as we hope and believe, we have the wisdom, the strength, and the courage and the virtue to do them. But we must face facts as they are. We must neither surrender ourselves to a foolish optimism, nor succumb to a timid and ignoble pessimism Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

Of all broken reeds," Roosevelt declared, "sentimentality is the most broken reed on which righteousness can lean.

THE FOLLOWING DAY, Wednesday, Hendricks telephoned acceptance, and on Friday afternoon Roosevelt joyfully released news of the nomination to the press. Privately, to his old Assembly colleague Henry L. Sprague, he wrote: "I have always been fond of the West African proverb: 'Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.' Ã¢â'¬Â28

LOOK NOW, IN YOUR IGNORANCE, ON THE FACE OF DEATH.

It is not22 a good thing for a country to have a professional yodeler, a human trombone like Mr. Bryan as secretary of state, nor a college president with an astute and shifty mind, a hypocritical ability to deceive plain people … and no real knowledge or wisdom concerning internal and international affairs as head of the nation.

It has been objected that I am a boy," said Roosevelt wearily—he had been hearing the charge for years—"but I can only offer the time-honored reply, that years will cure me of that." He

When we thus rule ourselves, we have the responsibilities of sovereigns, not of subjects. We must never exercise our rights either wickedly or thoughtlessly; we can continue to preserve them in but one possible way, by making the proper use of them.

They never open their mouths," he complained of two House colleagues, "without subtracting from the sum of human knowledge." Asked

Much like to the mole in Æsopes fable, that, being blynd her selfe, would in no wise be perswaded that any beast could see.

I could certainly subscribe to the notion that life ends in old age, sickness, and death—but later, later.

That's one of the problems—and joys—of old age: every time you read a book it's the first.

Older guys have too much emotional baggage. They've already lived their lives.

A closed mind is a dying mind.

He never studied, not a paper, not a textbook . . . the books he reads are the people that come to him

MARTIN (Serious) Am I too young for Alzheimer's? STEVIE Probably. Isn't it nice to be too young for something?

Ecclesiastes 1:15, "The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

Thinking is the ultimate human resource.