Quotes About Wisdom

This was a woman who didn't just go to bed with a book. She went to bed with a library.

Books grow old faster when they're not being read

And you know what they say. Choose yer wife with her nightcap on! You should take heed of that . .

I am sixty-five years old. I have had a long life and I will say that in many respects it has been a good one. I had expected to die on many occasions before now. You might even say that death has been a companion of mine, always walking two steps behind. Well, now he has caught up.

could hear his voice. "Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas…

You're never too young to die.

Believe me, It would be better if we didn't meet again. Go back to school. Go back to your life. And next time they ask you, say no. Killing is for grown-ups and you're still a child.

Develop a passion for learning. If you do, you will never cease to grow.

The rules have changed. True power is held by the person who possesses the largest bookshelf, not gun cabinet or wallet.

In order to succeed you must fail, so that you know what not to do the next time.

In your thirst for knowledge, be sure not to drown in all the information.

The only real failure in life is one not learned from.

The Western arrogance of feeling that it has everything to teach others and nothing to learn from them is not just. (MLK, Jr., Riverside Church, New York City, April 4, 1964) (Note: 50 years ago)

They are noted in bold print.

Never underestimate the potential for another man's incompetence

Anthony Joshua

Adolescence is such a fun time in your life, because you think you know it all, and you haven't gotten to the point where you realize that you know almost nothing.

My father provided some very important guidance in how we deal with conflict and polarization.

Experience join'd with common sense, To mortals is a providence.

It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.

History provides a sense of where we've been and lessons that can be taken forward.

Prudence is foresight and far-sightedness. It's the ability to make immediate decisions on the basis of their longer-range effects.

It is one of the oldest maxims of moral prudence: Do not, by aspiring to what is impracticable, lose the opportunity of doing the good you can effect!

It is madness to make fortune the mistress of events, because by herself she is nothing and is ruled by prudence.