Quotes About Wisdom

If we all spoke the truth there would be a great deal of unhappiness in the world, and particularly at such a time. Some things are better left unsaid.

You are very young and time, it is a great healer.

Resenting the obtuseness of others is not good ground for shooting oneself in the foot.

As you can see, there are quite a number of things taught in school that one has to unlearn or at least correct.

It is one thing to know the past, but knowing what to do with it is something else. Our aim should be to be liberated from our history.

On this battlefield man has no better weapon than his intelligence, no other force but his heart. (From Jose Rizal's letter to his nephew Alfredo or Freding)

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.

TRUTHFUL, adj. Dumb and illiterate.

Think twice before you speak to a friend in need

Fear has no brains; it is an idiot. The dismal witness that it bears and the cowardly counsel that it whispers are unrelated.

Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.

Bigamy, n. A mistake in taste for which the wisdom of the future will adjudge a punishment called trigamy.

Human nature is pretty well balanced; for every lacking virtue there is a rough substitute that will serve at a pinch--as cunning is the wisdom of the unwise, and ferocity the courage of the coward.

PLATITUDE, n. The fundamental element and special glory of popular literature. A thought that snores in words that smoke. The wisdom of a million fools in the diction of a dullard. A fossil sentiment in artificial rock. A moral without the fable. All that is mortal of a departed truth. A demi-tasse of milk-and-mortality. The Pope's-nose of a featherless peacock. A jelly-fish withering on the shore of the sea of thought. The cackle surviving the egg. A desiccated epigram.

Reality, n. The dream of a mad philosopher.

Age - That period of life in which we compound for the vices that remain by reviling those we have no longer the vigor to commit.

Ah, children of the sunlight and the gaslight, how little you know of the world in which you live!

Aphorism, n. Predigested wisdom.

You scoundrel, you have wronged me, hissed the philosopher, May you live forever!

Erudition - dust shaken out of a book into an empty skull

ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

There's nothing new under the sun, but there are lots of old things we don't know.

No hay nada nuevo bajo el sol, pero hay muchas cosas viejas que nosotros no sabemos.

Gondoskodás nélkül ki tudja, milyen mélyre süllyedtem volna a tudatlanságba - még tanár lett volna belÅ'lem a végén.