Quotes About Wisdom

It takes all sorts of in and outdoor schoolingTo get adapted to my kind of fooling.

Education doesn't change life much. It just lifts trouble to a higher plane of regard.

If, as they say, some dust thrown in my eyesWill keep my talk from getting overwise,I'm not the one for putting off the proof.Let it be overwhelming.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Take care to sell your horse before he dies. The art of life is passing losses on.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they can talk sense.

We dance in a circle and suppose, while the secret sits in the middle and knows.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those who think they talk sense.

It wasn't in books. It wasn't in a church. What I needed to know was out there in the world.

The size of an investor's brain is less important than his ability to detach the brain from the emotions.

The market, like the Lord, helps those who help themselves," Buffett says. "But unlike the Lord, the market does not forgive those who know not what they do.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

It is perfectly delightful to take advantage of the conscientious labors of those who go through and through volume after volume, divide with infinite patience the gold from the dross, and present us with the pure and shining coin. Such men may be likened to bees who save us numberless journeys by giving us the fruit of their own.

Anger blows out the lamp of the mind.

If the people were a little more ignorant, astrology would flourish...

Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

There is no slavery but ignorance.

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.

I admit that reason is a small and feeble flame, a flickering torch by stumblers carried in the star-less night, -- blown and flared by passion's storm, -- and yet, it is the only light. Extinguish that, and nought remains.

I regard the Bible, especially the Old Testament, the same as I do most other ancient books, in which there is some truth, a great deal of error, considerable barbarism and a most plentiful lack of good sense.

There is no slavery but ignorance. Liberty is the child of intelligence.

The intellectual advancement of man depends upon how often he can exchange an old superstition for a new truth.

The theologians dead, knew no more than the theologians now living.