Wisdom Quotes

"No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time" "Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil" "Since everything is in our heads, we had better not lose them." "To rise from error to truth is rare and beautiful." "The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk" "Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error" "It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment" "The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil" "I wish it need not have happened in my time said Frodo So do I said Gandalf and so do all who live to see such times But that is not for them to decide All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us" "Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful." "It is better to suffer wrong than to do it, and happier to be sometimes cheated than not to trust." "Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so." "The knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss." "The quality of any advice anybody has to offer has to be judged against the quality of life they actually lead." "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" "The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding" "Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge" "The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions" "As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so a life well-used brings happy death" "While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die"