Quotes about Wisdom
It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.
— Chris Fabry
In dark ages people are best guided by religion, as in a pitch-black night a blind man is the best guide; he knows the roads and paths better than a man who can see. When daylight comes, however, it is foolish to use blind, old men as guides.
— Heinrich Heine
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
— Heinrich Heine
Whatever tears one may shed, in the end one always blows one's nose.
— Heinrich Heine
To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but to so love wisdom as to live according to its dictates a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity and trust
— Henry David Thoreau
It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
— Henry David Thoreau
How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.
— Henry David Thoreau
Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends.... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
— Henry David Thoreau
One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors; for to dwell upon them is to add to the offense.
— Henry David Thoreau
What are the earth and all its interests beside the deep surmise which pierces and scatters them?
— Henry David Thoreau
A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. - from Live Without Principle
— Henry David Thoreau
Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice.
— Henry David Thoreau