Quotes About Wisdom

The people are to be taken in very small doses.

Great men, great nations, have not been boasters and buffoons, but perceivers of the terror of life, and have manned themselves to face it.

Let us be poised, and wise, and our own, today. Let us treat men and women well; treat them as if they were real; perhaps they are.

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Only so much of life do I know as I have lived.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...

There is no knowledge that is not power.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.

The true philosopher and the true poet are one, and a beauty, which is truth, and a truth, which is beauty, is the aim of both.

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. He who is not everyday conquering some fear has not learned the secret of life.

She shows us only surfaces but Nature is a million fathoms deep.

Years teach much which the days never knew.

One idea lights a thousand candles.

Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.

Books are the best of things, well used; abused, among the worst...They are for nothing but to inspire.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does not to dwell on dreams and forget to live, but it is equally foolish to ignore the past – never forget.

He will perceive that there are far more excellent qualities in the student than preciseness and infallibility; that a guess is often more fruitful than an indisputable affirmation, and that a dream may let us deeper into the secret of nature than a hundred concerted experiments

The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means to an education.

I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom that is in books.

The life of truth is cold.

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind, he has descended into the secrets of all minds.

Every man in his lifetime needs to thank his faults.

O Day of days when we can read! The reader and the book, either without the other is naught.