Quotes about Wisdom
I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.
— Epicurus
The desire to reach hearts is wise
— Maya Angelou
Be a function of your values rather than a function of the impulse or desire of any given moment.
— Stephen Covey
Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Where destiny blunders, human prudence will not avail.
— Publilius Syrus
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
— Aristotle
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
— Charles Stanley
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
— Mark Twain
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
— CS Lewis
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
An English writer telephoned me from London, asking questions. One was, 'What's your alma mater?' I told him, 'Books.
— Malcolm X
Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.
— Martin Luther King, Jr.