Quotes About Wisdom

Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world.

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left to him owes to his father's care.

Knowledge is the Treasure, but Judgment the Treasurer of a Wise Man.

He that has more Knowledge than Judgment, is made for another Man's use more than his own.

For disappointments, that come not by our own folly, they are the trials or corrections of Heaven: and it is our own fault, if they prove not our advantage.

Not to be provok'd is best: But if mov'd, never correct till the Fume is spent; For every Stroke our Fury strikes, is sure to hit our selves at last.

In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom through the awful grace of God. —Aeschylus

I think the dead should shut up unless there's something to say

In our sleep, pain, which cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart until, in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom

Life Begins at Forty.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom; youth is the season of credulity.

The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honorable gentleman [Walpole] has with such spirit and decency charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny; but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.

Information is a source of learning. But unless it is organized, processed, and available to the right people in a format for decision making, it is a burden, not a benefit.

Sometimes "creativity" is just common sense.

there's no point in looking for hundred-dollar bills in the street. Why? Because, were there any hundred-dollar bills, someone would already have picked them up.

The assumption that anything true is knowable is the grandfather of paradoxes.

Proverbs are mental gems gathered in the diamond districts of the mind.

The modern world belongs to the half-educated, a rather difficult class, because they do not realize how little they know.

Taceant Colloquia. Effugiat Risus. Hic Locus Est Ubi Mors Gaudet Succurrere Vitae. [Let idle talk be silenced. Let laughter be banished. Here is the place where Death delights to succour Life.]

A fool takes no pleasure in understanding, but only in expressing personal opinion. —PROVERBS 18:2

Military commanders choose to overlook the Kenyan proverb that proclaims the power of the flea--"A flea can trouble a lion more than the lion can harm a flea." Most generals would rather be lions than fleas.

The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.