Quotes About Wisdom

Colleges don't make fools. They only develop them.

A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.

There are questions I'm still not wise enough to answer, just wise enough to no longer ask.

You can generally tell what processes a man's mind has gone through by what he's studied, observed.

it didn't seem I could know it until I had lived it.

To be a learner, you've got to be willing to be a fool.

Education is about the only thing lying around loose in the world, and it's about the only thing a fellow can have as much of as he's willing to haul away.

The ability to speak does not make you intelligent.

Train yourself to let go of the things you fear to lose.

In a dark place we find ourselves, and a little more knowledge lights our way.

Mentors have a way of seeing more of our faults that we would like. It's the only way we grow.

Education has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading

Past tears are present strength.

As you grow ready for it, somewhere or other you will find what is needful for you in a book.

Old wisdom out of the cluster of gathering shadows.

A few years' experience will convince us that those things which at the time they happened we regarded as our greatest misfortunes have proved our greatest blessings.

Your dear baby has died innocent and blameless, and has been called away by an all wise and merciful Creator, most probably from a life to misery and misfortune, and most certainly to one of happiness and bliss.

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

A great library contains the diary of the human race.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate,Look we for any kinship with the stars.Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold,And the great price we pay for it full worth;We have it only when we are half earth.

I think there is no light in the world but the world and I think there is light

They used to advise young men to avoid gambling, drink, and women. And they were probably right in their time. But the single most important thing in the world today is not to read The New Yorker.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

At age 50, every man has the face he deserves.