Quotes About Wisdom

As the Spanish proverb says, "He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies must carry the wealth of the Indies with him." So it is in traveling: a man must carry knowledge with him, if he would bring home knowledge.

For precept must be upon precept, precept upon precept; line upon line, line upon line; here a little, and there a little.

Never trouble trouble till trouble troubles you.

And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.

By becoming more unhappy, we sometimes learn how to be less so.

The mean of true valor lies between the extremes of cowardice and rashness.

I believe in practicing prudence, at least once every two or three years.

Everyone is ignorant, only on different subjects.

She realizes she doesn't know as much as God but feels she knows as much as God knew when he was her age.

Horse sense is what keeps horses from betting on what people will do.

Let him who believes in immortality enjoy his happiness in silence without giving himself airs about it.

Who would ever give up the reality of dreams for relative knowledge?

Riches serve a wise man but command a fool.

Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

Alas! another instance of the triumph of hope over experience.

Look not thou upon the wine when it is red, when it giveth his colour in the cup;... at the last it biteth like a serpent, and stingeth like an adder.

A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

The wisdom of our ancestors.

It is easy to be wise after the event.

No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked.