Quotes About Wisdom

A man who starts imagining that others think good because he does is simply out of his mind. I've helped bury a few who did think that way... nice, peaceful men who wanted no trouble and made none. When feeding time comes around there's nothing a hawk likes better than a nice, fat, peaceful dove.

I would not have the old ways die, for all people in their own way find a path to wisdom. Each way can be a good way. Each has something to offer the world.

It is neither size nor age that makes a man, Mr. Ryerson, but something he has inside. My son has it.

She'd never been one to think in terms of years, anyway. A person was what they were, and many a man at forty was sixty in his ways and many another was twenty and would never grow past it.

If one really wants to learn, one has to decide what is important. Spending an evening on the town? Attending a ball game? Or learning something that can be with you your life long?

Not even a mouse trusts himself to one hole only

Never let them know how you feel or what you are thinking. If they know how you feel they know how to hurt you, and if they hurt you once, they will try again.

The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to mind is yours forever.

Sometimes it's better to reserve judgment Ã¢â'¬Â¦ 

he'd had the foresight to know that a lot of the savages wear store-bought clothes.

I never liked the term mystic as applied to someone or a way of thought. It covers something very profound and an awful lot of nonsense passes as profound thought.

Men have passed on the knowledge of how to mix cement, lay brick, splice a line, navigate a ship, make steel, and dozens of other crafts, yet in politics, statecraft, and social relationships we continue to repeat old mistakes.

Suddenly a knowledge came upon me.

A lady, but a bright one—she was intelligent, with a good measure of common sense, and the two are not always one.

Another thing Pa taught me: If you're going to fight…fight. Talk about it after.

in his younger years he had ridden the outlaw trail until time brought wisdom.

Information is power.

There are things a man learns about the cold, and the first one is never to work up a sweat, for when a sweating man slows down or stops the sweat freezes inside his clothing, forming a thin coating of ice near the skin. After that, unless one finds shelter quickly, it is only a matter of time.

There are things a man learns about the cold, and the first one is never to work up a sweat, for when a sweating man slows down or stops the sweat freezes inside his clothing, forming a thin coating of ice near the skin. After that, unless one finds shelter quickly, it is only a matter of time. He had also learned not to dress too heavily, but to wear the garments loose so they form a cushion of warm air next to the body.

You would be wise he agreed, To go to Cordoba or Toledo. The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is forever.

Once you've read a book you care about, some parts of it always stay with you.

Boswell's The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.

You never learn anything when you're talkin', boy, only when you're listenin'.

Luckily, one of my teachers got me started on Plutarch and Montaigne.