Quotes About Wisdom

Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.

If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.

A word in season is most precious.

A man should either not converse with kings at all, or say what is agreeable to them.

Every tale is not to be believed.

Don't be in a hurry to change one evil for another.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

The least outlay is not always the greatest gain.

Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Example is the best precept.

The lamb… began to follow the Wolf in the Sheep's clothing.

Be content with your lot one cannot be first in everything.

We should look to the mind, and not to the outward appearance.

What a splendid head, yet no brain.

Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.

Fine clothes may disguise, but silly words will disclose a fool

The smaller the mind, the greater the conceit.

Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.

We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction

The wise man will love; all others will desire.

Smooth seas do not make skilful sailors

The one who asks questions doesn't lose his way

A word uttered cannot be taken back