Quotes About Wisdom

Millie snapped. "Are you saying I'm an old wife?" "I'd better shut my trap before I fall into yours.

She becomes the voice of reason when there is none

Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

Silence is not always tact and it is tact that is golden, not silence.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

Life is the art of drawing sufficient conclusions from insufficient premises.

It is better for a man to remain silent and appear a fool, then to open his mouth and remove all doubt.

People need to be reminded more often than they need to be instructed.

You can never be wise unless you love reading.

The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.

Men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?

Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Don't, Sir, accustom yourself to use big words for little matters.

Sir, a woman's preaching is like a dog's walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you are surprised to find it done at all.

He that reads and grows no wiser seldom suspects his own deficiency, but complains of hard words and obscure sentences, and asks why books are written which cannot be understood.

A second marriage is a triumph of hope over experience.

A wise man will make haste to forgive, because he knows the true value of time, and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.

MARRY IN HASTE, REPENT AT LEISURE.

A man who writes a book, thinks himself wiser or wittier than the rest of mankind; he supposes that he can instruct or amuse them, and the publick to whom he appeals, must, after all, be the judges of his pretensions.

Never trust a man who writes more than he reads.