Quotes about Wisdom
The man who prays ceases to be a fool
— Oswald Chambers
We swim, day by day, on a river of delusions, and are effectually amused with houses and towns in the air, of which the men aboutus are dupes. But life is a sincerity.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Much of the wisdom of the world is not wisdom, and the most illuminated class of men are no doubt superior to literary fame, and are not writers.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the facade of a temple wherein all wisdom and all good abide.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Begin and proceed on a settled conviction that but little is permitted to any man to do or to know, and if he complies with the first grand laws, he shall do well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
The finished man of the world must eat of every apple once.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
In every man's memory, with the hours when life culminated are usually associated certain books which met his views.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If we will not interfere with our thought, but will act entirely, or see how the thing stands in God, we know the particular thing, and every thing, and every man.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Poets like Shakespeare know more about poetry than any $25 an hour man.
— Robert Frost
The civilized man is a more experienced and wiser savage.
— Henry David Thoreau
A man's ignorance sometimes is not only useful, but beautiful-while his knowledge, so called, is oftentimes worse than useless, besides being ugly.
— Henry David Thoreau