Wisdom Quotes

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 But wisdom born of experience should tell us that war is obsolete.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.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

We owe to the Jews in the Christian revelation a system of ethics which, even if it were entirely separated from the supernatural, would be incomparably the most precious possession of mankind, worth in fact the fruits of all other wisdom and learning put together. On that system and by that faith there has been built out of the wreck of the Roman Empire the whole of our existing civilization.

Persevere towards those objectives which are lighted for us by all the wisdom and inspiration of the past.