Quotes about Wisdom
If you live long enough, you see the same eyes in different people.
- Star Wars: The Force Awakens
Fall from ignorance, and you will rise to reason.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Bitter wisdom is better than sweet folly.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Justice is the grammar of things. Mercy is the poetry of things.
- Frederick Buechner
In the Book of Poetry there are three hundred poems, but the meaning of all of them may be put in a single sentence: Have no debasing thoughts.
- Confucius
Poetry is the first and last of all knowledge - it is as immortal as the heart of man.
- William Wordsworth
The future lies with those wise political leaders who realize that the great public is interested more in government than in politics.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
There are no songs comparable to the songs of Zion, no orations equal to those of the prophets, and no politics like those which the Scriptures teach.
- John Milton
My politics are short and sweet, like the old woman's dance.
- Abraham Lincoln
Oh! the wisdom, the foresight and the hindsight and the rightsight and the leftsight, the northsight and the southsight, and the eastsight and the westsight that appeared in that august assembly.
- John Adams
When a man is pushed, tormented, defeated, he has a chance to learn something.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
He who reigns within himself and rules passions, desires, and fears is more than a king.
- John Milton