9 William Butler Yeats Quotes on Wisdom

William Butler Yeats quotes on wisdom

12. This country will not always be an uncomfortable place for a country gentleman to live in, and it is most important that we should keep in this country a certain leisured class. I am afraid that Labour disagrees with me in that. On this matter I am a crusted Tory. I am of the opinion of the ancient Jewish book which says 'there is no wisdom without leisure.'

16. Man can embody truth but he cannot know it.

80. Minnaloushe creeps through the grass Alone, important and wise, And lifts to the changing moon His changing eyes.

81. Opinion is not worth a rush.

120. Come let us mock at the wise; With all those calendars whereon They fixed old aching eyes, They never saw how seasons run, And now but gape at the sun.

136. Speech after long silence; it is right, All other lovers being estranged or dead, Unfriendly lamplight hid under its shade, The curtains drawn upon unfriendly night, That we descant and yet again descant Upon the supreme theme of Art and Song: Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

147. Seek out reality, leave things that seem.

174. Talent perceives differences, Genius unity.

175. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.