Quotes About Wisdom

He that fights and runs away Will live to fight another day.

The best is the cheapest.

A fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man can answer in seven years.

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

The net of the sleeper catches fish.

In baiting a mousetrap with cheese, always leave room for the mouse.

Show me a man with both feet on the ground and I'll show you a man who can't put his pants on.

When the mouse laughs at the cat there's a hole nearby.

As old as the itch.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it is best to let him run.

Reading maketh a full man.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Truth has rough flavors if we bite it through.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

The greatest and most important problems in life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown.

Wisdom never kicks at the iron walls it can't bring down.

No, Doctor, I don't want to grow young again. I just want to keep on growing old.

No country can act wisely simultaneously in every part of the globe at every moment of time.

Moderation in war is imbecility.

You too must not count overmuch on your reality as you feel it today, since, like that of yesterday, it may prove an illusion for you tomorrow.

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

Reason deserves to be called a prophet; for in showing up the consequence and effect of our actions in the present, does it not tell us what the future will be?

The last advance of reason is to recognize that it is surpassed by innumerable things; it is feeble if it cannot realize that.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.