Wisdom

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. J. R.R.

 

He should not vow to walk in the dark, who has not seen the nightfall. J. R. R.

 

Their plans were improved with the best advice. J. R.

 

We are never late. We arrive precisely when we mean to. J. R.

 

The life of the law has not been logic but experience.

Man has made use of his intelligence, he invented stupidity.

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

 

Opera does not call so much for an imaginative ear as for an imaginative eye, an eye which can see beyond little absurdities toward great truths.

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise.

The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

The wit of conversation consists more in finding it in others than in showing a great deal yourself.

To know how to grow old is the masterwork of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

A modest garden . . . contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.

People get wisdom from thinking, not from learning.

ADVICE IS A DANGEROUS GIFT, EVEN FROM THE WISE TO THE WISE, AND ALL COURSES MAY RUN ILL.

Let knowledge grow from more to more,

 

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

 

Wearing all that weight Of learning lightly like a flower.

 

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

 

There is more than one kind of wisdom, and all are essential in the world; it is not bad that they should alternate.

The wiser mind

Just as there are false dawns before the dawn itself, and winter-days so full of sudden sunlight that they will cheat the wise crocus into squandering its gold before its time, and make some foolish bird call to its mate to build on barren boughs, so there were Christians before Christ. . . . The unfortunate thing is that there have been none since.