Quotes about Wisdom
Maturity' really means: being very unsurprised by, and calm around, pain and disappointment.
— Alain de Botton
Wisdom is a teacher, God is its professor.The wise are His students, life is His rod, and eternal life is our reward.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
To forsake wisdom is to seek folly, to seek folly is to seek evil, to seek evil is to be in the arms of the devil, and to be in the arms of the devil is be in the arms of death.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
WISDOM is the STRONGEST weapon you could EVER acquire in your LIFETIME.
— Anonymous
If the heart had a brain kind people would rule the world.
— Matshona Dhliwayo
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it." (George Santayana)I've got news for Mr. Santayana: we're doomed to repeat the past no matter what. That's what it is to be alive.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
— John Milton
Vain wisdom all, and false philosophy.
— John Milton
Hence vain deluding Joys,The brood of Folly without father bred!
— John Milton
Govern well thy appetite, lest sin surprise thee, and her black attendant, Death.
— John Milton
Virtue could see to do what virtue would by her own radiant light, though sun and moon were in the flat sea sunk. And Wisdom's self oft seeks to sweet retired solitude, where, with her best nurse contemplation, she plumes her feathers, and lets grow her wings.
— John Milton
The first and wisest of them all professed to know this only, that he nothing knew.
— John Milton