Quotes about Wisdom

The most dangerous condition for a man or a nation is when his intellectual side is more developed than his spiritual.

I confess that I have been as blind as a mole, but it is better to learn wisdom late than never to learn it at all.

But a girl always knows.

a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

Are you well up in your Jean Paul?

The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.

The opinion of a clever man who has had no experience is really of less value than that of the man in the street who has actually been there.

To a great mind, nothing is little

To be alone is the fate of all great minds—a fate deplored at times, but still always chosen as the less grievous of two evils.

To free a man from error is not to deprive him of anything but to give him something: for the knowledge that a thing is false is a piece of truth. No error is harmless: sooner or later it will bring misfortune to him who harbours it. Therefore deceive no one, but rather confess ignorance of what you do not know, and leave each man to devise his own articles of faith for himself.

This is the case with many learned persons; they have read themselves stupid.

I've never known any trouble than an hour's reading didn't assuage.