Quotes About Wisdom

I should have taken school more seriously. I did OK, but I'm wishing I had put a little more into it.

If you're 50, you're never going to be 50 ever again, so enjoy being 50. If you sit through the year wishing you were younger, before you know it, it's going to be over, and you're going to be 51.

There's nothing I would do differently, no wishing I had done this or done that.

He's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool; what is wit in a wife good for, but to make a man a cuckold?

Irreverence is easy - what's hard is wit.

A fine quotation is a diamond in the hand of a man of wit and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

It is a sad thing when men have neither the wit to speak well nor the judgment to hold their tongues.

And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Silence is the wit of fools.

There's many a man has more hair than wit.

The more wit the less courage.

The genius, wit, and the spirit of a nation are discovered by their proverbs.

And wit's the noblest frailty of the mind.

Let the master praise him, and say, 'Here ye do well.' For, I assure you, there is no such whetstone to sharpen a good wit, and encourage a will to learning, as is praise.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Wit is the lowest form of humor.

His foe was folly and his weapon wit.

There is an old maxim which states that good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from poor judgment. I think something similar can be said of government policy, to wit: Good policy comes from experience, and experience comes from poor policy.

Indeed I had not much wit, yet I was not an idiot - my wit was according to my years.

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.

Nefertiti is lovely, but we should use our wit and will to look beyond that beautiful face to discover and to enjoy a more satisfying narrative - the story of mankind, not just of man.