#wisdo

Cleverness is not wisdom. ↗

— Euripides

#cleverness

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. ↗

— Euripides

#reply #silence #true #wisdom

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. ↗

— Nigel Farage

#become #eventually #idea #indeed #just

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#collective #i #i do #ignorance #individual

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. ↗

— Michael Caine

#called #education #fathom #heart #i

If a serious statement is defined as one that may be made in terms of waking life, poetry will never rise to the level of seriousness. It lies beyond seriousness, on that more primitive and original level where the child, the animal, the savage, and the seer belong, in the region of dream, enchantment, ecstasy, laughter. To understand poetry we must be capable of donning the child's soul like a magic cloak and of forsaking man's wisdom for the child's. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

#poetry #wisdom #dreams

As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time. ↗

— Mary Chapin Carpenter

#any #as far as #because #career #experiences

Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. ↗

— Chris Christie

#country #emotions #fathers #fleeing #founding

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#calls #common #common sense #degree #sense

They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. ↗

— George Combe

#brute #brute force #chooses #england #few