Human wisdom Quote by Henry David Thoreau Download Open image “A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.” — Henry David Thoreau ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Human wisdom Ignorance Ignorant Men Time Transcendentalism Wisdom Wise
A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. — James Allen Copy Share Image
There are many things of which a wise man might wish to be ignorant — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance. — Gian Carlo Menotti Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions,but an ignorant man follows the public opinion. — Grantland Rice Copy Share Image
Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool. — Solomon Ibn Gabirol Copy Share Image
A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows public opinion — Chinese Proverbs Copy Share Image
The wise man knows nothing if he cannot benefit from his wisdom. Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but also to be utilized. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Man isn't a fool for his ignorance, but rather for believing things that are wrong. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
If ever I did a man any goodof course it was something exceptional and insignificant compared with the good or evil which I am… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. They are but improved means to an unimproved end. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“Men say they know many things; But lo! they have taken wings, — The arts and sciences, And a thousand appliances; The wind that… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“All voting is a sort of gaming, like checkers or back gammon, with a slight moral tinge to it, a playing with right and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“This spending of the best part of one's life earning money in order to enjoy a questionable liberty during the least valuable part of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A traveler who looks at things with an impartial eye may see what the oldest inhabitant has not observed. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
In proportion as our inward life fails, we go more constantly and desperately to the post office. You may depend on it, that the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The still youthful energies of the globe have only to be directed in their proper channel. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Concord's little arch does not span all our fate, nor is what transpires under it law for the universe. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business. — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"? — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
“Heaven may be won, not by the sword, not by human wisdom, but by Faith, Love, and Good Works.” — Lew Wallace Copy Share Image
“Human wisdom has advanced to the point where man can construct satellites. And yet man in his wisdom cannot find a way to rescue… — Daisaku Ikeda Copy Share Image
International educational exchange is the most significant current project designed to continue the process of humanizing mankind to the point, we would hope, that… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes it will be from failure of human wisdom. — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
“The only thing that we know is that we know nothing, and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.” — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
The Shambhala teachings are founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help to solve the world's problems. This wisdom… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
I firmly believe this ... that without His concurring aid we shall succeed in this political building no better, than the builders of Babel:… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Human wisdom remains always one and the same although applied to the most diverse objects and it is no more changed by their diversity… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
Faith is the leading grace in all our spiritual warfare and conflict; but all along while we live, it hath faithful company that adheres… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants," wrote Edmund Burke in his Reflections on the Revolution in France. In… — Deborah Stone Copy Share Image
