Quotes About Wisdom

Don't jump in the water if you can't swim." —BOB MARLEY

Miss Amesbury is especially happy in the use of quotations—and an apt quotation is like a lamp which flings its light over the whole sentence.

Oh, if Shakespeare says it, that's all right.

A baby has brains, but it doesn't know much. Experience is the only thing that brings knowledge, and the longer you are on earth the more experience you are sure to get.

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

Vir prudens non contra ventum mingit. (A wise man does not urinate against the wind.) Roman proverb

You speak sincerely, but your sorrow has no cause. The wise grieve neither for the living nor for the dead. There has never been a time when you and I … have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist.

Ideas and not battles mark the forward progress of mankind.

The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age.

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

Learning locked in mildewed books is of little use to anyone and therefore of no value unless it can be used.

Men who know are secure and Men who don't know believe in luck.

The best thing about getting old is that all those things you couldn't have when you were young you no longer want.

The world existed to be read. And I read it.

And so you also see how no skill, no matter how lowly, is ever learned in vain.

I walked a mile with Pleasure, She chattered all the way; But left me none the wiser For all she had to say. I walked a mile with Sorrow, And ne'er a word said she; But, oh, the things I learned from her When sorrow walked with me.

Do not blame for the stone that made you fall today, cause tomorrow it will serve as a lesson for you kick it

The right thing to do is always the one that only your heart can give the answer.

I used my brains to outsmart teachers—and that wasn't very smart at all.

Things that really, really hurt are the right things to do.

Insulting a bunch of dead witches not smart...

Fathers send their sons to college either because they went to college or they didn't.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.