Quotes on Wisdom

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says: it can't be done.

Three things cannot long be hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.

Chase after the truth like all hell and you'll free yourself, even though you never touch its coat tails.

In order that all men might be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.

Experience has taught me this, that we undo ourselves by impatience. Misfortunes have their life and their limits, their sickness and their health.

Let the lover be disgraceful, crazy, absent-minded._x000D_ _x000D_ Someone sober will worry about events going badly._x000D_ _x000D_ Let the lover be.

If you want to be loved, be lovable.

Learning is an active process. We learn by doing.. Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations and you're not in this world to live up to mine.

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom; and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech; which is the right of every man as far as by it he does not hurt or control the right of another; and this is the only check it ought to suffer and the only bounds it ought to know.... Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freedom of speech, a thing terrible to traitors.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Perhaps a child who is fussed over gets a feeling of destiny; he thinks he is the world for something important, and it gives him drive and confidence.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.