Quotes About Wisdom

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

There is a wisdom of the head, and... there is a wisdom of the heart.

No one who can read, ever looks at a book, even unopened on a shelf, like one who cannot.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

Old Marley was as dead as a doornail. Mind! I don't mean to say that, of my own knowledge, what there is particularly dead about a doornail. I might have been inclined, myself, to regard a coffin-nail as the deadest piece of ironmongery in the trade. But the wisdom of our ancestors is in the simile; and my unhallowed hands shall not disturb it, or the Country's done for. You will therefore permit me to repeat, emphatically, that Marley was as dead as a doornail.

I know enough of the world now to have almost lost the capacity of being much surprised by anything

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

Now, what I want is Facts. Teach these boys and girls nothing but Facts. Facts alone are wanted in life. Plant nothing else, and root out everything else. You can only form the minds of reasoning animals upon Facts; nothing else will ever be of any service to them.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

When they took a young man into Tellson's London house, they hid him somewhere till he was old. They kept him in a dark place, like a cheese, until he had the full Tellson flavour and blue-mould upon him. Then only was he permitted to be seen, spectacularly poring over large books, and casting his breeches and gaiters into the general weight of the establishment.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.

Depth answers only to depth .

She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

This reminds me, Godmother, to ask you a serious question. You are as wise as wise can be (having been brought up by the fairies), and you can tell me this: Is it better to have had a good thing and lost it, or never to have had it?

My advice is, never do tomorrow what you can do today. Procrastination is the thief of time. Collar him!

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

You have been so careful of me that I never had a child's heart. You have trained me so well that I never dreamed a child's dream. You have dealt so wisely with me, Father ,from my cradle to this hour, that I never had a child's belief or a child's fear. Mr. Gradgrind was quite moved by his success, and by this testimony to it. " My dear Louisa," said he, you abundantly repay my care. Kiss me, my dear girl.

He was wise enough to know that nothing ever happened on this globe, for good, at which some people did not have their fill of laughter in the outset

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

Mr. Dick, give me your hand, for your common sense is invaluable.