Quotes About Wisdom

This time, like all times, is a very good time - if we but know what to do with it

The wise man through an excess of wisdom is made a fool.

Of that ineffable essence which we call Spirit, he that thinks most, will say least.

Every thing looks permanent until its secret is known.

Some men's words I remember so well that I must often use them to express my thought. Yes, because I perceive that we have heard the same truth, but they have heard it better.

The years teach much which the days never know.

It is remarkable, the character of the pleasure we derive from the best books.

If you would lift me you must be on higher ground. If you would liberate me you must be free. If you would correct my false view of facts, — hold up to me the same facts in the true order of thought, and I cannot go back from the new conviction.

It does not need that a poem should be long. Every word was once a poem.

a good reader makes a good book

The soul is no traveller; the wise man stays at home, and when his necessities, his duties, on any occasion call him from his house, or into foreign lands, he is at home still, and shall make men sensible by the expression of his countenance, that he goes the missionary of wisdom and virtue, and visits cities and men like a sovereign, and not like an interloper or a valet.

The ancient precept, "Know thyself," and the modern precept, "Study nature," become at last one maxim.

How cunningly nature hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses and violets and monring dew

Apa yang kita fikir ibarat bunga,bahasa ibarat putik,manakala tindakan adalah buahnya.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

We live amid surfaces, and the true art of life is to skate well on them.

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

Undoubtedly we have no questions to ask which are unanswerable.

Each is liable to panic, which is, exactly, the terror of ignorance surrendered to the imagination.

No book has worth by itself, but by the relation to what you have from many other books, it weighs.

Genius is religious.

What's a book? Everything or nothing. The eye that sees it all.

Montaigne says, "Books are a languid pleasure," but I find certain books vital and spermatic, not leaving the reader what he was; he shuts the book a richer man. I would never willingly read any other than such.

thought can never ripen into truth.