Quotes About Wisdom

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

A little Learning is a dangerous Thing.

A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.

A little learning is a dangerous thing. Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian Spring; There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain, and drinking largely sobers us again.

Wise wretch! with pleasures too refined to please, With too much spirit to be e'er at ease, With too much quickness ever to be taught, With too much thinking to have common thought: You purchase pain with all that joy can give, And die of nothing but a rage to live.

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos'd as things forgot.

If I am right, Thy grace impart Still in the right to stay; If I am wrong, O, teach my heart To find that better way!

Moral maxims are surprisingly useful on occasions when we can invent little else to justify our actions.

He filled a shelf with a small army of books and read and read; but none of it made sense. .. They were all subject to various cramping limitations: those of the past were outdated, and those of the present were obsessed with the past.

It's a lucky man who leaves early from life's banquet, before he's drained to the dregs his goblet - full of wine; yes, it's a lucky man who has not read life's novel to the end, but has been wise enough to part with it abruptly - like me with my Onegin.

Trees are your best antiques.

If a man is worth knowing at all, he is worth knowing well.

I go into my library, and all history unrolls before me.

Books are a finer world within our world.

We do not err because truth is difficult to see. It is visible at a glance. We err because this is more comfortable.

Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag.

Knowledge without love inflates the ego and deceives the mind.

When pride comes, then comes dishonor, but with the humble is wisdom" (Prov. 11:2;

I am indebted to my father for living, but to my teacher for living well.

If I were not Alexander, I would be Diogenes.

I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion.

I had rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent, than in the extent of my power and dominion.