wisdom Quotes

You do ill if you praise, but worse if you censure, what you do not understand.

Nature never breaks her own laws.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind.

You can have no dominion greater or less than that over yourself.

Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!

What would be ugly in a garden constitutes beauty in a mountain.

Common sense is in spite of, not as the result of education.

The ideal and the beautiful are identical; the ideal corresponds to the idea, and beauty to form; hence idea and substance are cognate.