Quotes About Wisdom

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

Man] progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

Beware of false knowledge, it is more dangers than ignorance.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things, so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it.

For of course if nobody agrees with you, how are you to know youre not a fool?

A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

think men make more mistakes by being too clever than by being too good

It's unwise to be born; it's unwise to be married; it's unwise to live; and it's unwise to die. - Buhon

You see, we're all savages, more or less. We're supposed to be civilized and cultured—to know all about poetry and philosophy and art and science, and so on; but how many of us know even the meanings of these names?

Postajemo mudri ne zbog toga što se prise?amo naše prošlosti, ve? što postajemo odgovorni za našu budu?nost.

UNDERSHAFT. I will not call my wife Britomart: it is not good sense.