Quotes About Wisdom

Here I begin to know that blessedness is what can be snatched out the passing day and put away to think of afterwards.

Beware how you pass judgment on your superiors," he said mildly, "at least until you know how to put yourself in their place and see from their view.

He goes back to his childhood, as old men do.

One way to be sure of saying nothing that can be taken amiss is to say nothing at all.

Earth, Ruald had said, is innocent. Only the use we make of it can mar it. Yes, earth and many other things, knowledge, skill, strength, all innocent until use mars them.

I think truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light." "And there is nothing we can do to hasten it," said Pernel, and heaved a resigned sigh. "At present, nothing but wait." "And pray, perhaps?" she said.

Did you ever feel, Hugh, that it might be better to let even ill alone, wondered Cadfael ruefully, rather than let loose worse?

Well, you can fairly claim the day hasn't been wasted,' owned Cadfael generously, 'if something's been learned.

Much of what you learn through times of adversity will become lifelong wisdom, and these truths will sustain you throughout your ministry.

We believe that the applause of silence is the only kind that counts.

We should not be surprised that we find meaningless noises in the foundation of many old philosophies, and that from them arise most of the old philosophical fights and arguments.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

There are two ways to slide easily through life: Namely, to believe everything, or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,But more of reverence in us dwell;That mind and soul, according well,May make one music as before.

Wearing all that weightOf learning lightly like a flower.

Man's word is God in man.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.

I am MerlinWho follow the Gleam.

Much have I seen and known; cities of menAnd manners, climates, councils, governments,Myself not least, but honor'd of them all;And drunk delight of battle with my peers,Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy.I am a part of all that I have met;Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untravel'd world.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

Common sense is genius in homespun.

It is a safe rule to apply that, when a mathematical or philosophical author writes with a misty profundity, he is talking nonsense.