Quotes About Wisdom

Grandmothers are just antique little girls. Grandfathers are just antique little boys.

It's such a grand thing to be a mother of a mother — that's why the world calls her grandmother.

Grandmother — a wonderful mother with lots of practice.

A grandparent is old on the outside but young on the inside.

Grandma serves kisses, counsel, and cookies daily.

Sorrow makes us all children again, — destroys all differences of intellect. The wisest knows nothing.

Oh, most degrading of all ills that wait On man, a mourner in his best estate! All other sorrows virtue may endure, And find submission more than half a cure; Grief is itself a medicine, and bestow'd T' improve the fortitude that bears the load, To teach the wanderer, as his woes increase, The path of wisdom, all whose paths are peace...

They're not gray hairs — they're wisdom highlights.

Gray hair is a blessing — ask any bald man.

A man has gray hair; a poet has locks as silvery as long-lost treasure.

Experience is a comb which nature gives us when we are bald.

God made time, but man made haste.

He bites his tongue who speaks in haste.

Every fool knoweth that hatreds are the cinders of affection...

It is better to have your nose in a book than in someone else's business.

Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing.

Diseases come a horsebacke, and returne on foot.

Every one is made of matter, and matter is continually going through a chemical change. This change is life, not wisdom, but life, like vegetable or mineral life. Every idea is matter, so of course it contains life in the name of something that can be changed. Motion, or change, is life. Ideas have life. A belief has life, or matter; for it can be changed. Now, all the aforesaid make up man; and all this can be changed.

Man is made of opinions,—of truth and error; and his life is a warfare like all other lives before him... Man goes on developing error upon error till he is buried in his own belief... It is the office of wisdom to explain the phenomena in man called disease, to show how it is made, and how it can be unmade. This is as much a science as it is to know how to decompose a piece of metal.

Seek the wise and loving counsel of your Higher Self in the secret chamber of your heart.

The naïve follow their hearts. The wise lead with their hearts.

He who gives when he is asked has waited too long.

...the historian must serve two masters, the past and the present. And while his obligation to the past, his complete, unassailable fidelity to it, must always claim his first loyalty, he must accept the fact that the choices he makes as a historian are not of consequence to him alone, but will affect the moral sense, perhaps the wisdom of his generation.

The longer you can look back, the farther you can look forward.