Quotes About Wisdom

A cutting word is worse than a bowstring; a cut may heal, but the cut of the tongue does not

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet

The stone in the water knows nothing of the hill which lies parched in the sun.

He who asks questions, cannot avoid the answers

If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness.

By the time the fool has learned the game, the players have dispersed

Smooth seas do not make skillful sailors.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Corn can't expect justice from a court composed of chickens.

A camel never sees its own hump.

A fool and water will go the way they are diverted.

Do not try to fight a lion if you are not one yourself.

Everybody has been young before, but not everybody has been old before.

God conceals himself from the mind of man, but reveals himself to his heart.

Not to know is bad not to wish to know is worse.

The wise create proverbs for fools to learn, not to repeat.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.

If you place your head in a lion's mouth, then you cannot complain one day if he happens to bite it off.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

The young people think the old people are fools -- but the old people know the young people are fools.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot