Quotes about Wisdom

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter? If so, isn't it bad judgment to try to ram your opinions down the throats of other people? Isn't it wiser to make suggestions—and let the other

Speech is silvern, Silence is golden; Speech is human, Silence is divine.

There is no God any more divine than Yourself.

What stays with you longest and deepest? Of curious panics, of hard-fought engagements or sieges tremendous what deepest remains?

What will be will be well — for what is is well, To take interest is well, and not to take interest is well.

He most honors my style who learns under it to destroy the teacher. -from Song of Myself

All truths wait in all things

What ever satisfies the soul is truth.

Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Here I sit gossiping in the early candle-light of old age—and my book—casting backward glances over our travel'd road.

The knowledge of Christ which is produced by man's own cleverness and wisdom is not a rock that can stand firm.

I'd had the idea, once, that if I could get the chance before I died I would read all the good books there were. Now I began to see that I wasn't apt to make it. This disappointed me, for I really wanted to read them all.