Quotes About Wisdom

With every mistake, we must surely be learning.

All things must pass.

Books minister to our knowledge, to our guidance, and to our delight, by their truth, their uprightness, and their art.

Storms make the oak grow deeper roots.

One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.

He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.

Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.

Pension never enriched young man.

Take all that is given whether wealth, love or language, nothing comes by mistake and with good digestion all can be turned to health.

One father is more than a hundred Schoolemasters.

Read as you taste fruit or savor wine, or enjoy friendship, love or life.

Reason lies between the spur and the bridle.

Be thrifty, but not covetous.

Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

Spend not on hopes.

He that talkes much of his happinesse summons griefe.

The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.

I am defeated, and know it, if I meet any human being from whom I find myself unable to learn anything.

One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.

Think about every problem, every challenge, we face. The solution to each starts with education.

My grandkids say, 'Reality Bites.' O.K., but it also challenges and rewards...I believe our best days are yet to come.