Quotes about Wisdom

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

Every man is a divinity in disguise, a god playing the fool.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force, that thoughts rule the world.

We are wiser than we know.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

We mark with light in the memory the few interviews we have had with souls that made our souls wiser, that spoke what we thought, that told us what we knew, that gave us leave to be what we inly are.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

God offers to every mind a choice between repose and truth. take which you please--you can never have both. [Essay on Intellect]

Never read a book that is not a year old.

Ah, so you shall be sure to be misunderstood. -Is it so bad, then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood...