Quotes About Wisdom

Man is the interpreter of nature, science the right interpretation.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

I wish I could have known earlier that you have all the time you'll need right up to the day you die.

Don't be afraid to ask dumb questions. They're more easily handled than dumb mistakes.

Every idiot has an opinion. I should know because I am one of them.

Nor less I deem that there are PowersWhich of themselves our minds impress;That we can feed this mind of oursIn a wise passiveness.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is in the countenance of all Science.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

But who shall parcel out His intellect by geometric rules, Split like a province into round and square?

Truths that wake,To perish never.

What we have loved, others will love, and we will teach them how; instruct them how the mind of man becomes a thousand times more beautiful than the earth on which he dwells...

And yet the wiser mind Mourns less for what age takes away Than what it leaves behind.

Sweet is the lore which nature brings; Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things— We murder to dissect.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.

Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.

poetry is the breath and finer spirit of knowledge

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

I'll teach my boy the sweetest things; I'll teach him how the owlet sings.

Books! tis a dull and endless strife: Come, hear the woodland linnet, How sweet his music! on my life, There's more of wisdom in it.

Poetry is the breath and finer spirit of all knowledge; it is the impassioned expression which is the countenance of all science.

One moment now may give us more Than fifty years of reason; Our minds shall drink at every pore The spirit of the season.