Quotes About Wisdom

A word to the wise is sufficient.

He multiplieth words without knowledge.

Words are the small change of thought.

Words should be weighed and not counted.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Words once spoken, can never be recalled.

True eloquence consists of saying all that should be, not all that could be, said.

I was brought up to believe that the only thing worth doing was to add to the sum of accurate information in the world.

Come, follow me, and leave the world to its babblings.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it.

If all the world must see the world As the world the world hath seen, Then it were better for the world That the world had never been.

There is nothing so wretched or foolish as to anticipate misfortunes. What madness is it in expecting evil before it arrives?

I am reminded of the advice of my neighbor. "Never worry about your heart 'til it stops beating."

T'ain't worthwhile to wear a day all out before it comes.

Be, therefore, not anxious about tomorrow; for tomorrow will be anxious for the things of itself.

Rule No. i is, don't sweat the small stuff. Rule No. 2 is, it's all small stuff.

I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which never happened.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

A man ninety years old was asked to what he attributed his longevity. "I reckon," he said, with a twinkle in his eye, "it's because most nights I went to bed and slept when I should have sat up and worried."

This was the penn'worth of his thought.

Who has never tasted what is bitter does not know what is sweet.

No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.

What the student calls a tragedy, the master calls a butterfly.

Let us not be needlessly bitter: certain failures are sometimes fruitful.