Wisdom Quotes

That within the best of us, there is some evil, and within the worst of us, there is some good. When we come to see this, we take a different attitude toward individuals.

Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. Science deals mainly with facts; religion deals mainly with values. The two are not rivals. They are complementary.

This business of burning human beings with napalm, of filling our nation's homes with orphans and widows, of injecting poisonous drugs of hate into veins of peoples normally humane, of sending men home from dark and bloody battlefields physically handicapped and psychologically deranged, cannot be reconciled with wisdom, justice and love.

Man's proneness to engage in war is still a fact. But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile-hoping it will eat him last.

You must look at facts because they look at you.

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.

The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

A hopeful disposition is not the sole qualification to be a prophet.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

No folly is more costly than the folly of intolerant idealism.

The man who stands firm in order to protect a sand-castle can never be relied upon; for he has given away his common sense.

If you mean to profit, learn to please.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

We are happier in many ways when we are old than when we were young. The young sow wild oats. The old grow sage.

The first duty of a university is to teach wisdom, not trade; character, not technicalities.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

Joan was a being so uplifted from the ordinary run of mankind that she finds no equal in a thousand years. She embodied the natural goodness and valour of the human race in unexampled perfection. Unconquerable courage, infinite compassion, the virtue of the simple, the wisdom of the just, shone forth in her. She glorifies as she freed the soil from which she sprang.