Wisdom

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men may know many things by seeing; but no prophet can see before the event, nor what end waits for him.

Every man can see things far off but is blind to what is near.

A wise man does not chatter with one whose mind is sick.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

No enemy is worse than bad advice.

Reason is God's crowning gift to man.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

I grow old learning something new every day.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.

Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

I would fain grow old learning many things.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.