Wisdom Quotes

In Scouting you are combating the brooding of selfishness.

Idleness is the heaviest of all oppressions.

Not seeing people permits us to imagine them with every perfection.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

I am not in the world to care for my life, but for souls.

The miserable's name is Man; he is agonizing in all climes, and he is groaning in all languages.

Taste is the common sense of genius.

No one ever keeps a secret so well as a child.

One resists the invasion of armies; one does not resist the invasion of ideas.

Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.

You should not open your mouth except to express gratitude for benefits you have received, and never to mention your discontent.

People are made in such a way that even the holiest ones are liable to offend one another.

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

Each man is led by his own liking.

Wisdom is obtained by reading the mind of God.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Politeness is not always a sign of wisdom; but the want of it always leaves room for a suspicion of folly, if folly and imprudence are the same.

Quietly affirm that you will define your own reality from now on and that your definition will be based on your inner wisdom

You open doors when you open books... doors that swing wide to unlimited horizons of knowledge, wisdom, and inspiration that will enlarge the dimensions of your life.

Philosophy is harmonized knowledge making a harmonious life; it is the self-discipline which lifts us to serenity and freedom. Knowledge is power, but only wisdom is liberty.

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Wisdom is sold in a desolate marketplace where none can come to buy.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance.

It is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says there is no wisdom without leisure.

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

Some people are more nice than wise.

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile.

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

To hazard much to get much has more of avarice than wisdom.

There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise.

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy.

If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.

The eye is a menace to clear sight, the ear is a menace to subtle hearing, the mind is a menace to wisdom, every organ of the senses is a menace to its own capacity.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Words are not brains, you know.

He who speaks without an attentive ear is mute.

Today the greatest single source of wealth is between your ears.

Yes - en I's rich now, come to look at it. I owns myself, en I's wuth eight hund'd dollars. I wisht I had de money, I wouldn' want no mo'.

People love answers, but only as long as they are the ones who came up with them.

The world is always open, Waiting to be discovered.