Quotes About Wisdom

To rush into explanations is always a sign of weakness.

At my time of life, one knows that the worst is usually true.

Our weapon is our knowledge. But remember, it may be a knowledge we may not know that we possess.

Fear is incomplete knowledge

To count - really and truly to count - a woman must have goodness or brains.

One must make one's own mistakes

Use that fluff of yours you call a brain.

One knows so little. When one knows more it is too late.

You are the patient one, Mademoiselle,' said Poirot to Miss Debenham. She shrugged her shoulders slightly. 'What else can one do?' You are a philosopher, Mademoiselle.' That implies a detached attitude. I think my attitude is more selfish. I have learned to save myself useless emotion.

That's the secret of existence. We're all a little mad.

And so could you know it if you would only use the brains the good God has given you. Sometimes I really am tempted to believe that by inadvertence, He passed you by.

You're very young...you haven't got to that yet. But it does come! The blessed relief when you know that you've done with it all - that you haven't got to carry the burden any longer. You'll feel that too someday...

If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.

What you do not understand is that there are things that cannot be bought.

Youth is a failing only too easily outgrown.

Never part with information unnecessarily. That's my rule,

Do you believe in the value of truth, my dear, or don't you?" "Of course I believe in the truth," said Rhoda, staring. "Yes, you say that, but perhaps you haven't thought about it. The truth hurts sometimes – and destroys one's illusions." "I'd rather have it all the same." said Rhoda. "So would I. But I don't know that we're wise.

The illusion that freedom is the prerogative of one's own particular race is fairly widespread. Dr Gerard was wiser. He knew that no race, no country and no individual could be described as free. But he also knew that there were different degrees of bondage.

Lie is more worth living, more full of interest when you are likely to lose it. It shouldn't be, perhaps, but it is. When you're young and strong and healthy, and life stretches ahead of you, living isn't really important at all. It's young people who commit suicide easily, out of despair from love, sometimes from sheer anxiety and worry. But old people know how valuable life is and how interesting. - Jane Marple

What can I say at seventy-five? "Thank God for my good life,and for all the love that has been given to me.

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

My remarks are, as always, apt, sound, and to the point. (Hercule Poirot)

Inestimable harm may be done by foolish wagging of tongues in ill-natured gossip

That's where all the trouble in life comes from. Thinking.