Quotes about Wisdom

If you love life, don't waste time, for time is what life is made up of.

The devil is very sagacious. To judge by the event, he appears to have understood man better even than the Being who made him.

the man that wandereth out of the way of understanding shall remain (i.e. even while living) in the congregation of the dead.

How can you see better of a dark night than anybody else, never mind how foolish?

Ignorance is the parent of fear.

Here, brush this old hair aside; it blinds me, that I seem to weep. Locks so grey did never grow but from out some ashes! But do I look very old, so very, very old, Starbuck? I feel deadly faint, bowed, and humped, as though I were Adam, staggering beneath the piled centuries since Paradise.

Why don't ye be sensible, Flask? it's easy to be sensible; why don't ye, then? any man with half an eye can be sensible. I don't know that, Stubb. You sometimes find it rather hard.

Better be an old maid, a woman with herself for a husband, than the wife of a fool; and Solomon more than hints that all men are fools; and every wise man knows himself to be one.

Oh, boys, don't be sentimental; it's bad for the digestion!

It's pleasant to sit by, a demi-god, and hear the surmisings of mortals, upon things they know nothing about; theology, or amber, or ambergris, it's all the same. But then, did I always out with every thing I know, there would be no conversing with these comical creatures.

The higher the intelligence, the more faith, and the less credulity; Gabriel rejects more than we, but out-believes us all.

Only God possesses the love and wisdom necessary to deal with human pride in a consistently constructive manner.