Quotes About Wisdom

Time is a river, and books are boats.

Successful stocks don't tell you when to sell. When you feel like bragging, it's probably time to sell.

Time will say nothing but I told you so, Time only knows the price we have to pay; If I could tell you I would let you know.

An illusion of depth often occurs if a blockhead is a muddlehead at the same time

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time.

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito.

Time's chariot-wheels make their carriage-road in the fairest face.

When you stop learning, stop listening, stop looking and asking questions, always new questions, then it is time to die.

Time destroys the speculation of men, but it confirms nature.

The growth of understanding follows an ascending spiral rather than a straight line.

I was afraid of being a failure, of not having the best time or of being chicken. But every year I get older I think, What was I fearing last year?' You forget. And then you move on.

As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.

Time is the coin of our live. We must take care how we spend it.

But time has a way of demonstrating the most stubborn are the most intelligent.

Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

If you are not an idealist by the time you are twenty you have no heart, but if you are still an idealist by the time you are thirty, you don't have a head.

He was then in his fifty-fourth year, when even in the case of poets reason and passion begin to discuss a peace treaty and usually conclude it not very long afterwards.

Nothing valuable can be lost by taking time.

After a crisis we tell ourselves we understand why it happened and maintain the illusion that the world is understandable. In fact, we should accept the world is incomprehensible much of the time.

the first time you are reconciled to the terrible unfairness of disappointment, you are getting old.

To be a fool at the right time is also an art.

Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Give me insight into today and you may have the antique and future worlds.