Quotes about "Wisdom & Knowledge"

Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.' ”

Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. ”

Education, n.: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. ”

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing. ”

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious. ”

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office. ”

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. ”

Compromise, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due. ”

Admiral. That part of a warship which does the talking while the figurehead does the thinking. ”

Officers who use stop and search appropriately, with reasonable grounds and in a targeted and intelligence-led way, will always have my full support. ”