Quotes about Wisdom

All of us judge by sight and not by knowledge.

Those who look for filth, can find it at the height of noon.

And whatso man they call Happy, believe not ere the last day fall!

The man who knows when not to act is wise. To my mind, bravery is forethought.

Speak wisdom to a fool and he'll think you have no sense at all

Teiresias: Yes well, what is it they say, you're as young as you feel? Kadmos: We must get to the mountain. Should we call a cab? Teiresias: That doesn't sound very Dionysian. Kadmos: Good point. Let's walk.

Dream not thou that force is power; Nor, if thou hast a thought, and that thought sour And sick, oh, dream not thought is wisdom!

The men of old times had little sense;/If you called them fools you wouldn't be far wrong./They invented songs, and all the sweetness of music,/To perform at feasts, banquets, and celebrations;/But no one thought of using/Songs and stringed instruments/To banish the bitterness and pain of life.

Sometimes life makes you older than your age.

I hope she'll be a fool - that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

Then I grew up, and the beauty of succulent illusions fell away from me.

It is the most opulent, most gorgeous land on earth—a land whose wisest are but little wiser than its dullest; a land where the rulers have minds like little children and the law-givers believe in Santa Claus; where ugly women control strong men——