Quotes on Wisdom

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Beware of those who would use violence, too often it is violence they want and neither truth nor freedom.

The happiness consists in realizing that it is all a great strange dream.

Trees are poems the earth writes upon the sky, We fell them down and turn them into paper, That we may record our emptiness.

Government is an evil; it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

Risks must be taken because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

If every man took only what was sufficient for his needs, leaving the rest to those in want, there would be no rich and no poor.

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Be aware of your own worth, use all of your power to achieve it. Create an ocean from a dewdrop. Do not beg for light from the moon, obtain it from the spark within you.

You think that I am impoverishing myself withdrawing from men, but in my solitude I have woven for myself a silken web or chrysalis, and, nymph-like, shall ere long burst forth a more perfect creature, fitted for a higher society.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.