Quotes About Wisdom

"Tut, tut, child," said the Duchess. "Everything's got a moral if only you can find it."

The morning is wiser than the evening.

There are three books my daughter felt were the most important influences in her life: the Bible, her mother's cookbook, and her father's checkbook.

It is a wise child that knows its own father, and an unusual one that unreservedly approves of him.

If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.

There isn't much that tastes better than praise from those who are wise and capable.

People who fight fire with fire usually end up with ashes.

When the flag is unfurled, all reason is in the trumpet.

The mouse that hath but one hole is quickly taken.

Swans sing before they die - 'twere no bad thing, did certain persons die before they sing.

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

A wise neuter joins with neither, but uses both, as his honest interest leads him.

Laws die, books never.

What is valuable is not new, and what is new is not valuable.

Men perish because they cannot join the beginning with the end.

Make haste slowly.

We must learn from life how to suffer it.

Life is a maze in which we take the wrong turning before we learn to walk.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.

You can observe a lot just by watching.

The eyes indicate the antiquity of the soul.