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Quotes About Wisdom

Paranoia is just another word for ignorance.
~ Hunter S. Thompson
People go to school and get educated, but most people who go to school and become a graduate in eduation still don't know what the word 'education' means... 'Educo' means to bring out.
~ Peter Tosh
Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'
~ Saint Basil
For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's appropriate that the word 'ignorance' is an extension of the word 'ignore.' We ignore so much and so we become ignore-ant.
~ David Icke
A word, once sent abroad, flies irrevocably.
~ Horace
I've never heard my dad say a bad word about anybody. He always keeps his emotions in check and is a true gentleman. I was taught that losing it was indulgent, a selfish act.
~ Hugh Jackman
Freedom is just another word: It seems to get truer the older I get.
~ Kris Kristofferson
Why need I volumes, if one word suffice?
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
The right word fitly spoken is a precious rarity.
~ John Boyle O'Reilly
There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.
~ Baltasar Gracian
A good maxim allows you to have the last word without even starting a conversation.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
To ascertain the Lord's will, we ought to use scriptural means. Prayer, the word of God, and His Spirit should be united together. We should go to the Lord repeatedly in prayer, and ask Him to teach us by His Spirit through His word.
~ George Muller
If honest of heart and uprightness before God were lacking or if I did not patiently wait on God for instruction, or if I preferred the counsel of my fellow-men to the declarations of the Word of God, I made great mistakes.
~ George Muller
To reject the word is to reject the human search.
~ Max Lerner
We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.
~ Winston Churchill
Silence is better than unmeaning words.
~ Pythagoras
It does not require many words to speak the truth.
~ Chief Joseph
The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences.
~ Saint Augustine
Words are the money of fools.
~ Thomas Hobbes
All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
~ Khalil Gibran
Where can I find a man who has forgotten words so I can have a word with him?
~ Zhuangzi
It is a masterpiece of the devil to make us believe that children cannot understand religion. Would Christ have made a child the standard of faith if He had known that it was not capable of understanding His words?
~ Dwight L. Moody
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
~ Sophocles