Quotes about Wisdom

Ideals are dangerous things. Realities are better. They wound, but they're better.

It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.

A burnt child loves the fire.

I quite agree with Dr. Nordau's assertion that all men of genius are insane, but Dr. Nordau forgets that all sane people are idiots.

It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Don't squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar

When I was young I thought money was the most important thing in life, now that I'm old - I know it is!

MRS ALLONBY I adore them. The clever people never listen, and the stupid people never talk. HESTER I think the stupid people talk a great deal. MRS ALLONBY Ah, I never listen!

The supreme vice is shallowness.

Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we can see life as a whole, by which and by which alone we can understand others in their real and their ideal relation. Only what is fine, and finely conceived can feed love. But anything will feed hate.

To look wise is quite as good as understanding a thing, and very much easier.