Quotes About Wisdom

An old Chinese folk wisdom holds, "Of all the thirty-six ways to get out of trouble, the best way is—leave."10

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If I can tell you anything today, it is that you should never, ever believe your eyes. Or your mind, for that matter.

He knew he had a lot to learn—that was why he was asking questions.

Stay smart and run. Sounds like a sweet life.

Losing parts of your memory didn't make you an idiot.

Shut up! Do you think we're morons?" Michael kept his expression blank. Oh how badly he wanted to say "Yup.

Denying the truth would solve nothing.

Como podemos saber a quien escuchar y a quien ignorar?

You're very observant, Jimmy," he said, and I thought it was pretty dumb to call it observant—it seemed obvious.

Oh, if Plato could see me now ! Aristotle, traveler of time!

There is no whole truth, but this is what we have, And it goes on Beyond impact, beyond reach, beyond recall…

If I were going to tell one of my sons how to possess the world, I would simply bring him into my house, show him that solid wall of books, and say to him: 'the secret is in there somewhere, and even if you never find out what it is, you will still have come closer.

Can there be nothing but what we are able to understand and explain as to means, mode, and accomplishment? This would be a poverty-stricken world if it knew nothing but what man can explain and expound. Shall it be that because we cannot do a thing, we shall say it cannot be done, even by a higher power?

The secret of the Lord is with them that fear him; and he will show them his covenant.'—Psalms 25:14.

If you have not learned wisdom and prudence in the use of "unrighteous mammon," how can you be trusted with the more enduring riches?

I agree with my father, Albert Einstein, don't believe every quote you read on the internet.

A knowledge of general literature is one of the evidences of an enlightened mind; and to give an apt quotation at a fitting time, proves that the mind is stored with sentential lore that can always be used to great advantage by its possessor.

Books are the beehives of thought; laconics, the honey taken from them.

His companion grandiose self-image felt good, unique, or special when he received perfect wisdom, direction, and knowledge from the omnipotent mother and father, which he equated with love.

Every trail has its end, and every calamity brings its lesson!

Your young white, who gathers his learning from books and can measure what he knows by the page, may conceit that his knowledge, like his legs, outruns that of his fathers', but, where experience is the master, the scholar is made to know the value of years, and respects them accordingly.

God planted the seeds of all the trees," continued Hetty, after a moment's pause, "and you see to what a height and shade they have grown! So it is with the Bible. You may read a verse this year, and forget it, and it will come back to you a year hence, when you least expect to remember it.

Advice is not a gift, but a debt that the old owe to the young.