Quotes about Wisdom
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
What a strange narrowness of mind now is that, to think the things we have not known are better than the things we have known.
— Samuel Johnson
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
— Samuel Johnson
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
You hesitate to stab me with a word, and know not - silence is the sharper sword.
— Samuel Johnson