Quotes about Wisdom
The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
— Euripides
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
— Euripides
Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
— Euripides
In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best.
— Euripides
What is wisdom? What gift of the godsis held in glory like this:to hold your hand victoriousover the heads of those you hate?Glory is precious forever.
— Euripides
Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
— Euripides
Account no man happy till he dies.
— Euripides
Among mortals second thoughts are wisest.
— Euripides
Judge a tree from its fruit not from the leaves.
— Euripides
Cleverness is not wisdom.
— Euripides
The Lord created me in the beginning of his ways, for his works; before the world he established me, in the beginning, before he made the earth, before he made the depths, before the mountains were settled,
— Eusebius of Caesarea
There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
— Ambrose of Milan