Being wise Quote by Samuel Johnson

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, toil, envy, want, and patron.

— Samuel Johnson

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause awhile from letters, to be wise.

— Samuel Johnson

“You will study the wisdom of the past, for in a wilderness of conflicting counsels, a trail has there been blazed. You will study…

— Benjamin N. Cardozo

“What is the scholar, what is the man for, but for hospitality to every new thought of his time? Have you leisure, power, property,…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A lovely, pure, noble, and most moral nature, without the strength of nerve which forms a hero, sinks beneath a burden which it cannot…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Acquire knowledge, it enables its professor to distinguish right from wrong; it lights the way to heaven. It is our friend in the desert,…

— Prophet Mohammad s.a.w

“Life is contemptuous of knowledge; it forces it to sit in the anterooms, to wait outside. Passion, energy, lies: these are what life admires.…

— James Salter

“People have the expectation that you're now very wise, that you've somehow acquired the knowledge of a thousand civilizations merely by passing through as…

— Chris Guillebeau

“Those of us who have been true readers all our life seldom fully realise the enormous extension of our being which we owe to…

— C.S. Lewis

“Disregard the study of God, and you sentence yourself to stumble and blunder through life blindfolded, as it were, with no sense of direction…

— J.I. Packer

“And as mere human knowledge can split a ray of light and analyse the manner of its composition, so, sublimer intelligences may read in…

— Charles Dickens

“There must always remain, however, from the standpoint of normal waking consciousness, a certain baffling inconsistency between the wisdom brought forth from the deep,…

— Joseph Campbell