Quotes About Wisdom

Sarah Palin is living proof that you can't make a silk purse out of a horse's ass.

I was thinking that if what distinguishes us as humans is our stupidity, what may redeem us is our grace.

A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.

Everything you and I will ever have will come to us as the result of the way we use our minds, the one thing we possess that makes us different from all other creatures.

And the greatest teacher of them all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the Secret time and time again, "As ye believe, so shall it be done, unto you.

If your opportunity comes and you are not prepared for it, it will only make you look foolish.

The two biggest things you can do to change your future are the books you read and the people you associate with.

The greatest teacher of all, the carpenter from the plains of Galilee, gave us the secret time and time again: "As ye believe, so shall it be done unto you.

Actually, it isn't a secret at all. It was first promulgated by some of the earliest wise men, and it appears again and again throughout the Bible. But very few people have learned it or understand it. That's why it's strange, and why for some equally strange reason it virtually remains a secret.

Throughout all history, the great wise men and teachers, philosophers, and prophets have disagreed with one another on many different things. It is only on this one point that they are in complete and unanimous agreement. We become what we think about.

There are several short intervals during the day, between studies and pleasures: instead of sitting idle and yawning, in those intervals, take up any book, though ever so trifling a one, even down to a jest-book; it is still better than doing nothing.

What you keep by you, you may change and mend but words, once spoken, can never be recalled.

No one can really know the life of his own day, let alone that of times long past. Always the historian sees as in a mirror darkly, the reds and the golds rendered drab by the shadows of time.

It's what you learn after you know it all that really counts.

Always remember, money isn't everything - but also remember to make a lot of it before talking such fool nonsense.

Experience is what enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Aging has a wonderful beauty and we should have respect for that.

I am learning all the time. My tombstone will be my diploma.

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.

I don't know anything, I never did know anything, but now I know I don't know anything!

Truth without love kills, but love without truth lies.

If thinking wants to think God, then it must endeavor to tell stories.

Let your heart give you joy in all the days of your life.