Quotes About Wisdom

Always the dullness of the fool is the whetstone of the wits.

Be not thy tongue thy own shame's orator.

The owl, night's herald.

I fear he will prove the weeping philosopher when he grows old, being so full of unmannerly sadness in his youth.

Have more than thou showest,Speak less than thou knowest,Lend less than thou owest.

He reads much;He is a great observer, and he looksQuite through the deeds of men.

If I chance to talk a little wild, forgive me;I had it from my father.

The bookish theoric.

He that has and a little tiny wit,With hey, ho, the wind and the rain,Must make content with his fortunes fit,Though the rain it raineth every day.

Hamlet: For if the sun breed maggots in a dead dog, being a god kissing carrion,—Have you a daughter?Polonius: I have, my lord.Hamlet: Let her not walk i' the sun.

Thou art a scholar; speak to it, Horatio.

That unlettered small-knowing soul.

For to be wise, and love,Exceeds man's might; that dwells with gods above.

Greatness knows itself.

I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

"Convey," the wise it call. "Steal" ' foh! a fico for the phrase!

Modest doubt is call'dThe beacon of the wise, the tent that searchesTo the bottom of the worst.

Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.

He that has a house to put's head in has a good head-piece.

Nature's above art in that respect.

Light seeking light doth light of light beguile.

For I am proverb'd with a grandsire phrase.

An unlesson'd girl, unschool'd, unpractic'd;Happy in this, she is not yet so oldBut she may learn.

Who can be wise, amaz'd, temperate and furious,Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.