Quotes About Wisdom

A man thinks that by mouthing hard words he understands hard things.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

Words do two major things: They provide food for the mind and create light for understanding and awareness.

Hear the words of prudence, give heed unto her counsels, and store them in thine heart; her maxims are universal, and all the virtues lean upon her; she is the guide and the mistress of human life.

A fool and his words are soon parted.

Words of comfort, skillfully administered, are the oldest therapy known to man.

Words, as is well known, are the great foes of reality.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Freeing oneself from words is liberation.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

Who has words at the right moment?

The words of truth are simple.

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Truth is something which can't be told in a few words. Those who simplify the universe only reduce the expansion of its meaning.

I have never developed indigestion from eating my words.

Bind up thy words that they run not riot, and grow wanton, and gather up sins for themselves in too much talking. Let them be rather confined, and held back within their own banks. An overflowing river quickly gathers mud.

I haven't much opinion of words. They're apt to set fire to a dry tongue, that's what I say.

The words of truth are always paradoxical.

Be sure your wisest words are those you do not say.

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

If you be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams - the more they are condensed the deeper they burn.