Explore Quotes on Wisdom

God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

Only the shallow know themselves.

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

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

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

Music is the voice that tells us that the human race is greater than it knows.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

One has to accept pain as a condition of existence. One has to court doubt and darkness as the cost of knowing. One needs a will stubborn in conflict, but apt always to the total acceptance of every consequence of living and dying.

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.