Quotes About Wisdom

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct form ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious.

Learning preserves the errors of the past, as well as its wisdom. For this reason, dictionaries are public dangers, although they are necessities.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

True courage is not the brutal force of vulgar heroes, but the firm resolve of virtue and reason.

Learning is often spoken of as if we are watching the open pages of all the books which we have ever read, and then, when occasion arises, we select the right page to read aloud to the universe.

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

Human life is driven forward by its dim apprehension of notions too general for its existing language.

The only use of a knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. The present contains all that there is. It is holy ground; for it is the past, and it is the future.

Not ignorance, but ignorance of ignorance is the death of knowledge.

the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

There are no whole truths; all truths are half-truths. It is trying to treat them as whole truths that plays the devil.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Intelligence is quickness to apprehend as distinct from ability, which is capacity to act wisely on the thing apprehended.

Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.

Get your knowledge quickly and then use it. If you can use it you will retain it.

The deepest definition of youth is life as yet untouched by tragedy.

Apart from blunt truth, our lives sink decadently amid the perfume of hints and suggestions.

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Everything of importance has already been seen by someone who did not discover it.

That knowledge which adds greatness to character is knowledge so handled as to transform every phase of immediate experience.

We all know Aesop's fable of the dog who dropped a piece of meat to grasp at its reflection in the water. We must not, however, judge too severely of error. In the initial stages of mental progress, error in symbolic reference is the discipline which promotes imaginative freedom.

Seek simplicity and distrust it.