Quotes about Wisdom

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

Who is there that can make muddy water clear? But if allowed to remain still, it will become clear of itself.

Acceptance of death. — The round of summer and winter becomes a blessing the moment we give up the fantasy of eternal spring.

A quick temper will make a fool of you soon enough.

Empty your cup so that it may be filled; become devoid to gain totality.

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.