Quotes about Wisdom
No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts. The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn, and Egypt, Greece, Rome, Gaul, Britain, America, lie folded already in the first man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wise men read very sharply all of your private history in your look and gait and behavior.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
We flee away from cities, but we bring The best of cities, these learned classifiers, Men knowing what they seek, armed eyes of experts.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Seek not abroad, for in the inner man dwells the truth.
- St. Augustine
The chief glory of a woman is not to be talked of, said Pericles, himself a much-talked-of-man.
- Virginia Woolf
All men desire by nature to know.
- Aristotle
The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.
- Aristotle
The man who sees two or three generations is like one who sits in the conjuror's booth at a fair, and sees the same tricks two or three times. They are meant to be seen only once.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
The wise man applauds he who he thinks most virtuous; the rest of the world applauds the wealthy.
- Samuel Johnson
The wisest man preaches no doctrines; he has no scheme; he sees no rafter, not even a cobweb, against the heavens. It is clear sky.
- Henry David Thoreau
I Pray Heaven to bestow the best of blessing on this house, and on ALL that shall hereafter inhabit it. May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof!
- John Adams