Quotes About Wisdom

Superstition is to religion what astrology is to astronomy the mad daughter of a wise mother. These daughters have too long dominated the earth.

It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.

My mother always said, 'When you're eating pretzels, chew before you swallow'. Always listen to your mother.

That strong mother doesn't tell her cub, Son, stay weak so the wolves can get you. She says, Toughen up, this is reality we are living in.

Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also leave treasured lessons that can guide us along our journeys even when they are no longer with us.

Ignorance is the mother of all evils.

Ignorance is the Mother not of Devotion, but of Heresy.

Maturity is doing what you think is best, even when your mother thinks it's a good idea.

My father is a chemist, my mother was a homemaker. My parents instilled in us the feeling that learning was the most exciting thing that could happen to you, and it never ends.

A smart mother makes often a better diagnosis than a poor doctor.

Becoming a mother has been the most amazing experience - in an instant you become strong. You have to be a little bit wiser; it's the most important job in the world.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Ignorance is the mother of presumption

A wise son makes a glad father, But a foolish son is the grief of his mother.

Becoming a grandmother is wonderful. One moment you're just a mother. The next you are all-wise and prehistoric.

As my mother once said to me, 'They're quite crazy, dear – men are. What you look for is one of them whose insanity is large enough, and calm and generous enough, to include you.

The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

The world's beginning is its mother. To have found the mother is also to know the children. Although you know the children, cling to the mother. Until your last day you will not be harmed.

Listen to your father who begot you, And do not despise your mother when she is old.

My mother would tell me that the shortest cut to purification after the unholy touch was to cancel the touch by touching any Mussalman passing by.

I am descended from a very long line my mother once foolishly listened to.

My mother always used to say: 'The older you get, the better you get, unless you're a banana.'

Let your daughter have first of all the book of Psalms for holiness of heart, and be instructed in the Proverbs of Solomon for her godly life.

I am indebted to my mother for the efflorescence of my knowledge.