Quotes About Wisdom

Reason can in general do more than blind force.

The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

At twenty a man is full of fight and hope. He wants to reform the world. When he's seventy he still wants to reform the world, but he knows he can't.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

Hindsight is always zo/20.

B.I.B.L.E. = Basic Instructions Before Leaving Earth.

From listening comes wisdom and from speaking, repentance.

No sensible person ever made an apology.

He that can take rest is greater than he that can take cities.

It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able man.

Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.

In taking revenge a man is but equal to his enemy, but in passing it over he is his superior.

Revenge is sweeter than life itself. So think fools.

Not to be provoked is best; but if moved, never correct till the fume is spent; for every stroke our fury strikes is sure to hit ourselves at last.

Of all the paths a man could strike into, there is, at any given moment, a best path ... a thing which, here and now, it were of all things wisest for him to do ... to find this path, and walk in it, is the one thing needful for him.

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing-to live in accord with his own nature.

Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be; custom will soon render it easy and agreeable.

The crow that mimics a cormorant gets drowned.

When I was young, I said to God, "God, tell me the mystery of the universe." But God answered, "That knowledge is reserved for me alone." So I said, "God, tell me the mystery of the peanut." Then God said, "Well George, that's more nearly your size." And he told me.

Choose a subject equal to your abilities; think carefully what your shoulders may refuse, and what they are capable of bearing.

The driver knows how much the ox can carry, and keeps the ox from being overloaded. You know your way and your state of mind. Do not carry too much.