Quotes about Wisdom

What can I tell you, except the stupid little I know?

Sometimes the most intelligent thing is not to do anything, certainly nothing loaded with the imbecility of emotionality.

I am enormously wise and abysmally ignorant

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

The best rules to form a young man, are, to talk little, to hear much, to reflect alone upon what has passed in company, to distrust one's own opinions, and value others that deserve it.

I shall conclude with a saying of Alponsus, surnamed the Wise, King of Aragon - that among so many things as are by men possessed or pursued in the course of their lives, all the rest are baubles, besides old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to converse with, and old books to read!

How can we judge fairly of the characters and merits of men, of the wisdom or folly of actions, unless we have . . . an accurate knowledge of all particulars, so that we may live as it were in the times, and among the persons, of whom we read, see with their eyes, and reason and decide on their premises?

Some things God has revealed; others remain mysteries.

The mind that is wise mourns less for what age takes away than what it leaves behind.

A light to guide, a rod to check the erring, and reprove.

Truths that wake, to perish never.

One impulse from a vernal wood May teach you more of man, Of moral evil and of good, Than all the sages can.