Wisdom Quote by Samuel Johnson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”

“I hate mankind, for I think myself one of the best of them, and I know how bad I am.”

“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”

“In order that all men may be taught to speak truth, it is necessary that all likewise should learn to hear it.”

“That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.”

“He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.”

“You cannot rush a tree into bloom. And you cannot force a soul to heal. Time is not a threat—it’s a companion.”

“Where is the truth then? Where does truth exist, behind the lie, within the lie? Is truth that which we seek to know or that which we avoid knowing?”

“Wisdom lives in silence. Not the wisdom of accumulated information, which is only knowledge, but the wisdom that comes from sitting with experience long enough to understand what it was actually teaching. Hurry gives us events. Silence gives us meaning.”

“It is the business of man to become acquainted with the material universe in all of its manifestations, so far as may be possible, in order to provide a foundation of knowledge on which the reasoning mind of man may increasingly build.”

“Once a wolf, always a wolf.”

“Never for a moment try to help yourself out of a difficulty by a lie or by a questionable act. Instead, keep in the middle of the high road of truth and integrity, and you will be following the best possible course. In our lives we must never practice deceit or duplicity. Be just and do not fear.”