Quotes About Wisdom

What one has not experienced, one will never understand in print.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

Courage is rarely reckless or foolish ... courage usually involves a highly realistic estimate of the odds that must be faced.

The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

To be ignorant of the lives of the most celebrated men of antiquity is to continue in a state of childhood.

Very few men are wise by their own counsel, or learned by their own teaching. For he that was only taught by himself had a fool for his master.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thy own.

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own.

Don't use the conduct of a fool as a precedent.

Poverty makes you sad as well as wise.

The clever men at Oxford Know all there is to be knowed - But they none of them know as half as much As intelligent Mr. Toad.

If I had read as much as other men, I should have known no more than they.

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Learning is the knowledge of that which none but the learned know.

I would live to study, not study to live.

Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

Failure is a school in which the truth always grows strong.

A few observations and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

Thy word is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path.

We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seekers of the best, We come back laden from our quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

The secret things belong unto the Lord our God.

Where secrecy reigns, carelessness and ignorance delight to hide - skill loves the light.

Even in your thought, do not curse the king, nor in your bedchamber curse the rich; for a bird of the air will carry your voice, or some winged creature tell the matter.