Quotes about Wisdom

You wish to be great, begin from the least. You are thinking to construct some mighty fabric in height; first think of the foundation of humility. And how great soever a mass of building one may wish and design to place above it, the greater the building is to be, the deeper does he dig his foundation.

Believe me, you will find more lessons in the woods than in books. Trees and stones will teach you what you cannot learn from masters.

He that will teach himself in school, becomes a scholar to a fool.

To know much and taste nothing-of what use is that?

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

To reach something good, it is useful to have gone astray.

My fondness for good books was my salvation.

Men think it lacking in humility and suppose that it is trying to teach those from whom it should learn, especially if the person in question is a woman.

Beware the man of a single book.

The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.

The study of truth requires a considerable effort - which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge - despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.

We should never use the truth to wound.