Quotes about Wisdom
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
A jest breaks no bones.
— Samuel Johnson
To let friendship die away by negligence and silence, is certainly not wise. It is voluntarily to throw away one of the greatest comforts of this weary pilgrimage.
— Samuel Johnson
With these [Love, Patience, Faith] celestial Wisdom calms the mind,And makes the happiness she does not find.
— Samuel Johnson
Every man wishes to be wise, and they who cannot be wise are almost always cunning.
— Samuel Johnson
He is a benefactor of mankind who contracts the great rules of life into short sentences, that may be easily impressed on the memory, and so recur habitually to the mind.
— Samuel Johnson
The supreme end of education is expert discernment in all things--the power to tell the good from the bad, the genuine from the counterfeit, and to prefer the good and the genuine to the bad and the counterfeit.
— Samuel Johnson
The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
— Samuel Johnson
Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.
— Samuel Johnson