Wisdom Quotes

“The wound of peace is surety, Surety secure; but modest doubt is called The beacon of the wise, the tent that searches To th' bottom of the worst.”

“Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy Rather in power than use; and keep thy friend Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence, But never tax'd for speech.”

“Tongues I'll hang on every treeThat shall civil sayings show. . . .”

“Weed your better judgments of all opinion that grows rank in them.”

“Free from gross passion or of mirth of anger constant spirit, not swerving with the blood, garnish'd and deck'd in modest compliment, not working with the eye without the ear, and but in purged judgement trusting neither? Such and so finely bolted didst thou seem.”

“Give to a gracious message An host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell Themselves when they be felt.”

“Be not too tame neither, but let your own Discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action.”

“It is a wise father that knows his own child.”

“Greatness knows itself.”

“Wisely weigh our sorrow with our comfort.”

“Withal I did infer your lineaments,Being the right idea of your father,Both in your form and nobleness of mind;Laid open all your victories in Scotland,Your discipline in war, wisdom in peace,Your bounty, virtue, fair humility;Indeed, left nothing fitting for your purposeUntouch'd or slightly handled in discourse.”

“As there comes light from heaven and words from breath, As there is sense in truth and truth in virtue”

“Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents.”

“Give it an understanding, but no tongue.”

“Ignorance is the curse of God; knowledge is the wing wherewith we fly to heaven.”

“A Loud Laugh Bespeaks a Vacant Mind!”

“Of one that lov'd not wisely but too well.”

“Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise.”

“I praise God for you, sir: your reasons at dinner have been sharp and sententious; pleasant without scurrility, witty without affectation, audacious without impudency, learned without opinion, and strange with-out heresy.”

“For my own part, I shall be glad to learn of noble men.”

“Holy, fair, and wise is she;The heaven such grace did lend her,That she might admired be.”

“Beware Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy; For the apparel oft proclaims the man.”

“Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*”

“Have more than thou showest, Speak less than thou knowest, Lend less than thou owest.”

“A good old man, sir. He will be talking. As they say, when the age is in, the wit is out.”