Quotes About Wisdom

and how dangerous and dumb it can be to embalm yourself in the attractive amber of the past.

Pour vivre heureux, vivons cachés, says an old French dictum—to live happily, live hidden.

Literacy was power.

Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of knowledge. —Marcus Tullius Cicero

It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing.... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.

Well, we'll know better next time.

A scholar's business is to add to what is known. That is all. But it is capable of giving the very greatest satisfaction, because knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or even sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth having. There is truth and falsehood in a comma.

It is better to be quotable than to be honest.

As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.

Don't clap too loudly—it's a very old world.

A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.

Words are sacred. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little.

Mr Hodge, ignorance should be like an empty vessel waiting to be filled at the well of truth – not a cabinet of vulgar curios.

Thomasina: Septimus, what is carnal embrace? Septimus: Carnal embrace is the practice of throwing one's arms around a side of beef.

Knowledge is good. It does not have to look good or sound good or even do good. It is good just by being knowledge. And the only thing that makes it knowledge is that it is true. You can't have too much of it and there is no little too little to be worth.

It is of course better to know useless things than to know nothing.

I'm no genius, but I'm smart in spots, and I stay around those spots.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas

Somos, así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto a nuestras vidas.

Somos así, los libros que hemos leído. O somos, de lo contrario, el vacío que la ausencia de libros ha abierto en nuestras vidas.

Yet time is one of God's most precious gifts to us. It is the most significant nonrenewable resource at our disposal. We have less of it remaining with each passing day. When God gave this gift, He intended for us to use it carefully, intentionally, wisely, and productively.

When Jesus calls us to bear fruit in this life, He is prompting us to demonstrate our faith by relying on Him and taking courses of action that defy the wisdom of the world.