Quotes About Wisdom

My only dream is to get old and finally have time to read all the books that I'm collecting.

When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.

A blunder at the right moment is better than cleverness at the wrong time.

Nothing comes ahead of its time, and nothing ever happened that didn't need to happen.

Some women can be fooled all of the time, and all women can be fooled some of the time, but the same woman can't be fooled by the same man in the same way more than half of the time.

If they would teach us from the time we're little to meditate and get in touch with all that our souls know, we wouldn't fight so much.

You can fool people some of the time, but you can't fool them all of the time.

I was born not knowing and have had only a little time to change that here and there.

I read poetry to save time.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

It was a favorite expression of Theophrastus that time was the most valuable thing that a man could spend.

What would be the use of immortality to a person who cannot use well a half an hour?

A moment's thought would have shown him. But a moment is a long time, and thought is a painful process.

Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to gain leisure.

In time we grow older, we grow wiser, we grow smarter, and we're better. And I feel like I'm becoming more seasoned, although I don't have my salt-and-pepper hair.

I like to think that as I get older I'm getting better at spending time with people who have qualities that make them worth spending time with.

Story is far older than the art of science and psychology, and will always be the elder in the equation no matter how much time passes.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

But after this natural burst of indignation, no man of sense, courage, or prudence will waste his time or his strength in retrospective reproaches or repinings.

Only fools and philosophers waste time on the unknowable.

I learned many years ago never to waste time trying to convince my colleagues.