Quotes About Wisdom

Well, it's no good jumping at conclusions." "Jump? You don't even crawl distantly within sight of a conclusion.

The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.

Lord, teach us to take our hearts and look them in the face, however difficult it may be." CHAPTER XVI From noise of scare-fires rest ye free, From Murders Benedicite.

It doesn't do for people, especially doctors, to go about 'thinking' things. They may get into frightful trouble.

So many things in this life are a waste of time

In my experience, the older a medical man gets, the less willing he is to make ex cathedra pronouncements, and the more he learns that Nature has her own way of confounding self-confident prophets.

Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.

She did not grudge him his entertainment; being old enough to know that even the most crashing social bricks make but a small ripple in the ocean of time, which quickly dies away.

I'm all for scattering sunshine as we pass. As Stevenson says, we shall pass this way but once--and I devoutly hope he's right.

The doors of the storehouse of knowledge should now be thrown open for them to browse about as they will.

I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy.

When I was young and bold and strong, The right was right, the wrong was wrong. With plume on high and flag unfurled, I rode away to right the world. But now I'm old - and good and bad, Are woven in a crazy plaid. I sit and say the world is so, And wise is s/he who lets it go.

Be you wise and never sad, You will get your lovely lad. Never serious be, nor true, And your wish will come to you-- And if that makes you happy, kid, You'll be the first it ever did.

Authors and actors and artists and such - Never know nothing, and never know much.

The cure to boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.

Never throw mud. You may miss your mark, but you will have dirty hands.

Four be the things I am wiser to know: Idleness, sorrow, a friend, or a foe. Four be the things I'd been better without: Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt. Three be the things I shall never attain: Envy, content, and sufficient Champagne. Three be the things I shall have till I die: Laughter and hope, and a sock in the eye.

Years are only garments, and you either wear them with style all your life, or else you go dowdy to the grave

People ought to be one of two things, young or old. No ; what's the good of fooling? People ought to be one of two things, young or dead.

There is only one kind of wisdom that has any social value, and that is the knowledge of one's own limitations.

Don't try taking over the Almighty's job," he said. "He's much better at it than you

All true wisdom is only to be found far from the dwellings of men, in the great solitudes; and it can only be obtained through suffering. Suffering and privation are the only things that can open the mind of man to that which is hidden from his fellows.' That