Quotes About Wisdom

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.

He who talks too much commits a sin.

The secret of being tiresome is in telling everything.

Good taste is the flower of good sense.

First he wrought, and afterwards he taught.

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.

No man can reveal to you aught but that which already lies half asleep in the dawning of your knowledge.

We teach what we need to learn and write what we need to know.

You cannot teach old dogs new tricks.

You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

One thing I can guarantee you. You may not be a great deal wiser from my talk today, but you will be a great deal older.

Some people speak from experience, while others, from experience, don't speak.

Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is To have a thankless child.

Be not curious in unnecessary matters: for more things are shewed unto thee than men understand.

Seek not out the things that are too hard for thee, neither search the things that are above thy strength.

Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings hast thou ordained strength.

The bible should be taught so early and so thoroughly that it sinks straight to the bottom of the mind where everything that comes along can settle on it.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link in the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age 18.

The heart of a statesman should be in his head.

One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

If you keep your mind sufficiently open, people will throw a lot of rubbish into it.