Quotes About Wisdom

Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise.

The heart is wiser than the intellect.

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom.

The price of wisdom is above rubies.

Great men are not always wise.

Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

The well of true wit is truth itself.

A brilliant epigram is a solemn platitude gone to a masquerade ball.

Brevity is the soul of wit.

Belief in form, but disbelief in content - that's what makes an aphorism charming.

When we're young we want to change the world. When we're old we want to change the young.

I know lots more old drunks than old doctors.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.

Oh, the shrewdness of their shrewdness when they're shrewd. And the rudeness of their rudeness when they're rude; But the shrewdness of their shrewdness and the rudeness of their rudeness, Are nothing to their goodness when they're good.

No wonder can last more than three days.

Miguel de Cervantes

How forcible are right words!

Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without knowledge?

A word spoken in good season, how good it is!

A word fitly spoken is like apples of gold in pictures of silver.