Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- Philosophy is the love of wisdom: Christianity is the wisdom of love.
- Pin thy faith to no man's sleeve; hast thou not two eyes of thy own?
- Poverty is very good in poems, but very bad in the house; very good in maxims and sermons, but very bad in practical life.
- Prefer knowledge to wealth, for the one is transitory, the other perpetual.
- Preventives of evil are far better than remedies; cheaper and easier of application, and surer in result.
- Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt.
- Progress means getting nearer to the place you want to be. And if you have taken a wrong turn, then to go forward does not get you any nearer.
- Prosperity is good; but, to those who can stand it, adversity is better. God has revealed the wisdom of the heavenly world oftener to men in dungeons than to men in palaces.
- Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.
- Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking makes what we read ours.
- Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.
- Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man.... Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
- Real knowledge is to know the extent of one’s ignorance.
- Recognize reality even when you don’t like it – especially when you don’t like it.
- Remember that in all miseries lamenting becomes fools, and action, wise folk.
- Risk comes from not knowing what you're doing.
- Say not always what you know, but always know what you say.
- Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber if he has common-sense on the ground-floor. But if a man has not got plenty of good common-sense, the more science he has the worse for his patient.
- Seek first to understand, then to be understood.
- Self-reflection is the school of wisdom.
- Sense shines with a double luster when it is set in humility. An able and yet humble man is a jewel worth a kingdom.
- Sense shines with a double lustre when set in humility.
- Shallow men believe in luck, wise and strong men in cause and effect.
- Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
- Silence is one great art of conversation.
- Simplicity before understanding complexity is ignorance. Simplicity after understanding complexity is genius.
- Slight small injuries, and they will become none at all.
- Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
- Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.
- Sometimes we may learn more from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
- Speak fitly, or be silent wisely.
- Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up.
- Strength of character consists of two things,--power of will and power of self-restraint.
- Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability.
- Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents.
- The aim of disputation and discussion should not be victory, but improvement.
- The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.
- The bird of wisdom flies low, and seeks her food under hedges; the eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the sun.
- The cause of all power, as of all weakness, is within: the secret of all happiness as of all misery is likewise within.
- The courage of the soldiers depends upon the wisdom of the general.