Quotes About Wisdom

He is a fool who will descend into a well on another man's rope.

Reading without thinking is as nothing, for a book is less important for what it says than for what it makes you think.

A knife is sharpened on stone, steel is tempered by fire, but men must be sharpened by men.

sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof." Each day must be approached as a unit; each day must be lived with care; and if this was done, the procession of days would turn out all right.

Avoid conflict and trouble, for enough of it fetches to a man without his asking.

Nobody lives long low-rating an enemy. You've got to give the other fellow credit for having as much savvy as you have, and maybe a little more.

I was by no means a scholar, simply an interested reader with nothing to do but live and learn.

A man ought to know enough to make a choice; and pa, he always advised me to look to both sides of a proposition.

There are men who prefer to keep trouble from a woman, but it seems to me that is neither reasonable nor wise. I've always respected the thinking of women, and also their ability to face up to trouble when it comes, and it shouldn't be allowed to come on them unexpected.

He realized what a fool he had been. There could be no tolerating of evil. One stamped it out or the evil grew worse.

The more one learns the more he understands his ignorance. I am simply an ignorant man, trying to lessen his ignorance.

I think the greatest gift anyone can give to another is the desire to know, to understand. Life is not for simply watching spectator sports, or for taking part in them; it is not for simply living from one working day to the next. Life is for delving, discovering, learning.

Folks who have lived the cornered sort of life most scholars, teachers, and storekeepers live seldom realize what they've missed in the way of conversation. Some of the best talk and the wisest talk I've ever heard was around campfires, in saloons, bunkhouses, and the like. The idea that all the knowledge of the world is bound up in schools and schoolteachers is a mistaken one.

he who ceases to learn is already a half-dead man.

be wary of evidence given by others, for in all evidence there is some interpretation. The eyes see, the mind explains. But does the mind explain correctly? The mind only has what experience and education have given it, and perhaps that is not enough. Because one has seen does not mean one knows.

No man can put a rope on the past and hope to snub it down. The best thing is to learn to it ride the new trails - Kilkenny

I have reverence for truth, but I do not know what truth is. I suspect there are many truths, and therefore, I suspect all who claim to have the truth.

Once you have read a book you care about, some part of it is always with you." –

Actually, he said one morning, all education is self-education. A teacher is only a guide, to point out the way, and no school, no matter how excellent, can give you an education. What you receive is like the outlines in a child's coloring book. You must fill in all the colors yourself.

Men distrust strangers, so have a few places where you are known Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not too well. Not

There was much talk of sermons, also, and I gathered from this, as well as what Yance had told me, that sermons had much to do with shaping of thinking. There were a stiff-necked, proud folk, not easily persuaded to any course not dictated by conscience, yet conscience could be a poor guide if accompanied by lack of knowledge.

Uninformed he might be, unintelligent he was not

One cannot begin too young nor linger too long with learning.

It is easy to destroy a book, but an idea once implanted has roots no man can utterly destroy.