Quotes about Wisdom
The truth touches us. We try to be guided by this contact.
— Pope Benedict XVI
In the East, the guru never calls himself a guru.
— Marianne Williamson
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
— George Bernard Shaw
Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
— George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
— George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
— George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?
— George Bernard Shaw
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
— George Bernard Shaw
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
— George Bernard Shaw
Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
— George Bernard Shaw