Quotes about Wisdom

There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind.

Every poem is a momentary stay against the confusion of the world.

The scars of others should teach us caution.

I saw within Its depth how It conceives All things in a single volume bound by Love of which the universe is the scattered leaves.

The one who loves knows better than anyone else how to conduct himself, how to serve the one he loves. Love prescribes an answer in a given situation as no mere rule can do.

True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.

You must make friends, therefore, with what you don't know, instead of what you know. You must remain awake to catch yourself in the act. You must remove the beam in your own eye, before you concern yourself with the mote in your brother's. And in this way, you strengthen your own spirit, so it can tolerate the burden of existence, and you rejuvenate the state.

Without the proper engagement in truth, your life will degenerate and you will end up embittered and in hell.

Devotion, when it does not lie under the check of reason, is apt to degenerate into enthusiasm.

What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the human soul.

Nature is full of wonders; every atom is a standing miracle, and endowed with such qualities, as could not be impressed on it by a power and wisdom less than infinite.

I am very much concerned when I see young gentlemen of fortune and quality so wholly set upon pleasures and diversions, that they neglect all those improvements in wisdom and knowledge which may make them easy to themselves and useful to the world.