Quotes about Wisdom
I have always revered not crude verbosity but holy simplicity.
— Saint Jerome
The scars of others should teach us caution.
— Saint Jerome
An unstable pilot steers a leaking ship, and the blind is leading the blind straight to the pit. The ruler is like the ruled.
— Saint Jerome
Qui nescit Scripturas, nescit Dei virtutem, ejusque sapientiam. Ignoratio Scripturarum ignoratio Christi est. Quem ignora as Escrituras ignora o poder e a sabedoria de Deus. A ignorância das Escrituras é ignorância de Cristo.
— Saint Jerome
Just as it is better to illuminate than merely to shine, so to pass on what one has contemplated is better than merely to contemplate.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
We are like children, who stand in need of masters to enlighten us and direct us and God has provided for this, by appointing his angels to be our teachers and guides.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Rarely affirm, seldom deny, always distinguish.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
The longer we live the more we think and the higher the value we put on friendship and tenderness towards parents and friends.
— Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
Classical quotation is a parole of literary men all over the world.
— Samuel Johnson
Prudence is an attitude that keeps life safe, but does not often make it happy.
— Samuel Johnson