Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- The dangers of knowledge are not to be compared with the dangers of ignorance. Man is more likely to miss his way in darkness than in twilight; in twilight than in full sun.
- The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
- The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
- The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
- The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.
- The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.
- The great man is always the man of mighty effort, and usually the man whom grinding need has trained to mighty effort.
- The great man, the wise man does small things greatly regarding nothing as "trivial" that is necessary.
- The greatest difficulties lie where we are not looking for them.
- The greatest knowledge is self-knowledge.
- The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
- The heart has its reasons, which reason does not know.
- The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
- The last thing we learn in life is to put first things first.
- The lower a man descends in his love, the higher he lifts his life.
- The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who can’t read them.
- The man who has no money is poor, but one who has nothing but money is poorer than he.
- The measure of wisdom is how calm you are when facing any given situation.
- The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.
- The more you know, the less you need to say.
- The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn’t being said.
- The most important thing to do if you find yourself in a hole is to stop digging.
- The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
- The only jewel which will not decay is knowledge.
- The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next.
- The point is not that men should have a great many books, but that they should have the right ones, and that they should use those that they have.
- The prejudiced and obstinate man does not so much hold opinions, as his opinions hold him.
- The problem is never the problem but the way you see the problem.
- The punishment suffered by the wise who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of bad men.
- The question is not what you look at, but what you see.
- The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
- The reading of all good books is like conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
- The richer we have become materially, the poorer we become morally and spiritually. We have learned to fly in the air like birds and swim in the sea like fish, but we have not learned the simple art of living together as brothers.
- The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.
- The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one does.
- The sum of wisdom is, that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- The sure way to be cheated is to fancy ourselves more cunning than others.
- The thrift of time will repay in after life with usury of profit beyond your most sanguine dreams, and waste of it will make you dwindle alike in intellectual and moral stature beyond your darkest reckoning.