Quotes About Wisdom

Samuel Johnson once said that remarrying (and he's not talking about marrying the same person here, just remarrying) is the "triumph of hope over experience." So for me, remarrying the same person is the triumph of nostalgia over judgment.

I have to start by telling you that my entire existence could be summed up in one phrase. And that is: If my life wasn't funny it would just be true, and that is unacceptable.

Hell, I still want to fit in with certain humans, but as you get older you get a little more discriminating.)

Hormonal ones, I am right here. Me. The old lady otherwise known as your grandmother

In his face there came to be a brooding peace that is seen most often in the faces of the very sorrowful or the very wise. But still he wandered through the streets of the town, always silent and alone.

Life had taught him about something far more complicated than justice. Its name was balance.

What was he thinking about? He was old, but he hasn't found peace. Had he realized that a long life didn't automatically bestow wisdom?

When old men met, they talked about the sea—

Philosophers have long conceded, however, that every man has two educators: 'that which is given to him, and the other that which he gives himself. Of the two kinds the latter is by far the more desirable. Indeed all that is most worthy in man he must work out and conquer for himself. It is that which constitutes our real and best nourishment. What we are merely taught seldom nourishes the mind like that which we teach ourselves.

The mere imparting of information is not education.

No people can go forward when the majority of those who should know better have chosen to go backward, but this is exactly what most of our misleaders do.

may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing,

It may be well to repeat here the saying that old men talk of what they have done, young men of what they are doing, and fools of what they expect to do. The Negro race has a rather large share of the last mentioned class.

We are like dwarfs standing on the shoulders of giants; thanks to them, we see farther than they. Busying ourselves with the treatises written by the ancients, we take their choice thoughts, buried by age and human neglect, and we raise them, as it were from death to renewed life." -Peter of Blois (d. 1212).

Human life without knowledge of history is nothing other than a perpetual childhood, nay, a permanent obscurity and darkness. -Philip Melanchthon

Il buon senso è la cosa meglio distribuita al mondo. Ciascuno infatti pensa di esserne così ben provvisto che anche coloro che di tutte le altre cose non si contentano mai, di questa sono soliti non volerne più di quanto ne hanno.

Having to explain it means you probably shouldn't have said it.

I'm still learning, and that's what life is about.

Oh, Lord, give me the desires of my heart. Or either change them according to Your will. Show me the error of my ways.

Light's glory is to dispel darkness. Christ has illumined you with wisdom and the fire of his presence. It has been sparked and kindled in you. Let it blaze.

If you leave a thought, a chance word, a phrase of music, in your mind, growing and cherished for its proper reason, you will have the wisdom or peace or strength that was hidden in that seed.

Thirty-five is when you finally get your head together and your body starts falling apart.

The man who seeks to educate himself must first read and then travel in order to correct what he has learned.