wisdom Quotes

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

What is human warfare but just this; an effort to make the laws of God and nature take sides with one party.

'Tis healthy to be sick sometimes.

Goodness is the only investment that never fails.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth.

True friendship can afford true knowledge. It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.