Quotes about Wisdom
His genius was belowThe skill of ev'ry common beau;Who, tho' he cannot spell, is wiseEnough to read a lady's eyes;And will each accidental glanceInterpret for a kind advance.Swift'sMiscell.
— Samuel Johnson
Those who take little thought find it easy to pronounce an opinion. - On Optimism
— Samuel Johnson
ABOUT (ABO'UT) prep.[abutan, or abuton, Sax. which seems to signify encircling on the outside.]1. Round, surrounding, encircling. Let not mercy and truth forsake thee. Bind them about thy neck; write them upon the table of thy heart.BibleProverbs,iii. 3.
— Samuel Johnson
This world, where much is to be done and little to be known.
— Samuel Johnson
He that adopts the sentiments of another whom he has reason to believe wiser than himself is only to be blamed when he claims the honours which are not due but to the author, and endeavours to deceive the world into praise and veneration; for to learn is the proper business of youth; and whether we increase our knowledge by books, or by conversation, we are equally indebted to foreign assistance.
— Samuel Johnson
Nothing has so much exposed men of learning to contempt and ridicule as their ignorance of things which are known to all but themselves.
— Samuel Johnson
When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.
— Samuel Johnson
To forgive and forget means to throw away dearly bought experience.
— Arthur Schopenhauer
Faith and reason are indeed complementary faculties that we use to think about the truth. When any winged creature (or mechanism) tries to fly on just one wing, it falls to the ground. In a similar way, when we human beings try to wing it with just one faculty, we crash.
— Scott Hahn
whopper-stopper
— Scott Hahn
Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying.
— Johannes Tauler
God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own.
— Johannes Tauler