Wisdom Quotes - Page 101

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Man can not live by bread alone ... he must have peanut butter.

That is the problem with age and wisdom—it merely shows you how helpless you are. The wiser you become, the more you learn to keep your mouth shut, until eventually the grave silences you forever.

Who has deceived thee as oft as thyself.

Use no hurtful deceit; think innocently and justly and, if you speak, speak accordingly.

Presumption first blinds a man, then sets him a running.

He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom.

A fisherman does not bait his hook with food he likes. He uses food the fish likes. So with boys.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

I should like to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche somewhere in a train or a steamer, and to spend the whole night talking to him. I consider his philosophy won't last long, however. It's more showy than convincing.

Love without courage and wisdom is sentimentality, as with the ordinary church member. Courage without love and wisdom is foolhardiness, as with the ordinary soldier. Wisdom without love and courage is cowardice, as with the ordinary intellectual. But the one who has love, courage and wisdom moves the world.

The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff.

Great people plant trees they'll never sit under.

All our thoughts and concepts are called up by sense-experiences and have a meaning only in reference to these sense-experiences. On the other hand, however, they are products of the spontaneous activity of our minds; they are thus in no wise logical consequences of the contents of these sense-experiences. If, therefore, we wish to grasp the essence of a complex of abstract notions we must for the one part investigate the mutual relationships between the concepts and the assertions made about them; for the other, we must investigate how they are related to the experiences.

It is possible to have too much of a good thing.

Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.

Example is the best precept.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

One should guard against believing the great masses to be more stupid than they actually are.

Human action can be modified to some extent, but human nature can not be changed

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

During a carnival, men put masks over their masks.

To be free is not necessarily to be wise. Wisdom comes with counsel, with the frank and free conference of untrammeled men united in the common interest.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.