Quotes About Wisdom

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself

Impara tutto ciò che ti è possibile dagli errori degli altri. Non avrai tempo a sufficienza per farli tutti.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Greatness is the dream of youth realized in old age.

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

the majority of people go past the doors that are half ajar, thinking them closed, and fail to notice the faint stirrings of the great curtain that hangs ever in the form of appearances between them and the world of causes behind.

He was trying to make up for lost time and money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the value of either.

This ancient script was graven in his soul.

The Wise are silent, the Foolish speak, and children are thus led astray.

It was so easy to be wise in the explanation of an experience one has not personally witnessed. ("The Wendigo")

I have lived long enough, having seen one thing, that love hath an end.

A man is not an orange. You can't eat the fruit and throw the peel away.

It is not necessary to light a candle to the sun.

The value and rank of a learned man is more than his knowledge.

Indeed, both the scholar and the student share the prosperity.

Both professor and student share in the pursuit of excellence and perfection.

Wisdom doesn't affect corrupt hearts.

Silence is one of the gates to wisdom.

Knowledge and science are the coffers and caches to the treasures of Perfection; and the only access to them is to ask and question.

Wisdom and intellect is every man's friend, ignorance and illiteracy are his enemies.

Some signs of understanding are: clemency, knowledge, and silence. Silence is one of the doors to wisdom. It brings about love and is evidence for all good.

Time will come when one's safety lies in ten things: nine of which are in staying aloof from men, and the tenth in staying silent.

One who offers (suggests) what he doesn't know, will be under the curse of the angels of the heavens and the earth.

Silence is a door among the doors of wisdom - indeed, silence begets and attracts love, it is the proof of all the beneficiences.