Quotes About Wisdom

Books are embalmed minds.

A book is a sign of the age-old effort to maintain what one generation hands on to another...

I've been saving books for all these years, and they've been saving me for my entire life.

A health to books!... Your goblets all refill; When all things mortal are decayed May books be with us still!

Good things, when short, are twice as good.

The younger brother hath the more wit.

Better bread with water than cake with trouble.

They try to burn the Devil out from books, but Angels of knowledge resist the flames of fear.

Don't burn books — let them set young minds on fire.

Let knowledge live. Burn your fears instead.

Books light the world — to burn them extinguishes the flame.

To burn one book is to burn the entire library.

CHILDHOOD, n. The period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth — two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age.

It is so odd to think of myself as an uncle. I should have laughed at twenty if one had told me that forty would find me wifeless and childless. But so it is, and I shall go and play "Uncle John" at Christmas to the children of wiser and happier folk...

What all of us know put together don't mean anything. Nothing don't mean anything. We are here for a spell and pass on. Anyone who thinks that civilization has advanced is an egotist.

Nothing astonishes men so much as common-sense and plain dealing. All great actions have been simple...

Common sense is a flower that does not grow in everyone's garden.

...a commonwealth ruled by common-sense and common virtue...

If you believe everything you read, you better not read.

He who buys what he does not need steals from himself.

Do you count your birthdays thankfully?

Intellectual courage is the foundation of good judgment. It is a balance between the strength of conviction and flexibility.

Socrates learned to dance when he was seventy, because he felt that an essential part of himself had been neglected.

[I]s there anyone so foolish, even though he is young, as to feel absolutely sure that he will be alive when evening comes?