Quotes On: Wisdom

What's right is what's left if you do everything else wrong.

In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Age considers; youth ventures.

Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Now I am older, I understand we have to accept who we are.

There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

The desire to reach the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.