Quotes about wisdom
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority,
it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
― Mark Twain
but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.”
― William Shakespeare
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
― Aristotle
“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
― Socrates
“The saddest aspect of life right now is that
science gathers knowledge faster than society
gathers wisdom.”
― Isaac Asimov
“Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears.”
― John Lennon
“In a good bookroom you feel in some mysterious way that you
are absorbing the wisdom contained in all the books through your skin,
without even opening them.”
― Mark Twain
“Never laugh at live dragons.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
“There is neither happiness nor misery in
nothing more. He who has felt the deepest
grief is best able to experience supreme happiness.
We must have felt what it is to die, Morrel,
that we may appreciate the enjoyments of life.
" Live, then, and be happy, beloved children
of my heart, and never forget, that until
the day God will deign to reveal the
future to man, all
human wisdom is contained in these two words,
'Wait and Hope.”
