Quotes About Wisdom

Logic is one thing, and common sense another.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. But a wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

When you say, "The burned child dreads the fire," you mean that he is already a master of induction.

Love is blind but the neighbors are not.

Love blinds the eyes and only regret will open them.

Discretion is being able to raise your eyebrow instead of your voice.

A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser to-day than he was yesterday.

...truth will sooner come out from error than from confusion...

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl-chain of all virtues.

Even nectar is poison if taken to excess.

Don't be sweet, lest you be eaten up; don't be bitter, lest you be spewed out.

An ounce of mother is worth a pound of clergy.

You can fool some of the people some of the time... But you can't fool Mom!

Every man who departs from nature is courting trouble.

Threads do not break for being fine, but for being gouty and ill-spun.

The veil concealing truth gets windswept in the wee hours, revealing all to the silence of the night.

Night is the mother of Councels.

Not all the nuts are in the can.

October is fresh-faced April beautifully aged to wisdom.

Optimism... Fatty degeneration of intelligence.

At 50 a man can be an ass without being an optimist but not an optimist without being an ass.

Patience is sister to meekness, and humility is its mother.

Philosophy is common sense in a dress suit.

...the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.