wisdom Quotes

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

When you learn, teach. When you get, give.

No one ever teaches well who wants to teach, or governs well who wants to govern.

Prejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.

No one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

The gods' service is tolerable, man's intolerable.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

I'm grateful to intelligent people. That doesn't mean educated. That doesn't mean intellectual. I mean really intelligent. What black old people used to call 'mother wit' means intelligence that you had in your mother's womb. That's what you rely on. You know what's right to do.

I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.

My mother said I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and more intelligent than college professors.