Quotes about Wisdom
If a man knew anything, he would sit in a corner and be modest; but he is such an ignorant peacock, that he goes bustling up and down, and hits on extraordinary discoveries.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise know that foolish legislation is a rope of sand, which perishes in the twisting.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
There is a kind of latent omniscience not only in every man, but in every particle. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The things taught in schools and colleges are not an education, but the means of education.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Great men are they who see that the spiritual is stronger than any material force.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Meek young men grow up in libraries, believing it their duty to accept the views which Cicero, which Locke, which Bacon have given, forgetful that Cicero, Locke and Bacon were only young men in libraries when they wrote these books.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The scholar is the delegated intellect. In the right state he is Man Thinking.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please — you can never have both.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson