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Wisdom Quotes
"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination."
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
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"Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values."
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"I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients."
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"Before a secret is told, one can often feel the weight of it in the atmosphere."
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"Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom."
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"Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda."
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"I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion."
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"Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties."
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"To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute."
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"Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has."
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"Discipline is wisdom and vice versa."
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"There is all of the difference in the world between paying and being paid."
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"Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use."
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"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
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"If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in."
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"New rules. If you are smart enough to live, you won't hit Charles's mate in front of his father."
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"Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation."
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"Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues."
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"Answer this to yourselves, & expel from among you those who pretend to despise the labours of Art & Science, which alone are the labours of the Gospel: Is not this plain & manifest to the thought? Can you think at all, & not pronounce heartily! That to Labour in Knowledge. is to Build up Jerusalem: and to Despise Knowledge, is to Despise Jerusalem & her Builders. And remember: He who despises & mocks a Mental Gift in another; calling it pride & selfishness & sin; mocks Jesus the giver of every Mental Gift. which always appear to the ignorance-loving Hypocrite, as Sins. but that which is a Sin in the sight of cruel Man. is not so in the sight of our kind God."
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"Naturally, in the course of my life I have made lots of mistakes, large and small, for one reason or another, but at the heart of it all, every time I made a mistake it was because I was not radical enough."
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"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
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"When I want a broad-minded opinion for general enlightenment, distinct from special advice, I never go to a man who deals in the subject professionally. So I like the parson's opinion on law, the lawyer's on doctoring, the doctor's on business, and my business-man's . . . on morals."
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"Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out."
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"Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form."
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"Many times in life, those who do the most correcting, need the most correcting."
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