Quotes About Wisdom

The fox has a hundred proverbs; ninety-nine are about poultry.

The maxims of men disclose their hearts.

As the country so the proverb.

A proverb is an exploding atom of wisdom.

Of course, talking only in proverbs would be impossible. Proverbs are full of poetry and twists. They are made up of words that have been molded for centuries, if not milleniums, until a minimum of words carry an extraordinary potential for meaning.

Dost thou not, then, Prometheus, know this proverb, that "Words are the physicians of a mind diseased"?

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.

Like your body your mind also gets tired so refresh it by wise sayings.

Quotations will tell the full measure of meaning, if you have enough of them.

Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink.

The teachings of elegant sayings Should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, Any price will be paid.

But I can't forbear quoting the Advice of a great Author...

I never said all that [$#*t].

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other very well.

An aphorism is never exactly true. It is either a half-truth or a truth and a half.

Aphorism: a concise, clever statement. Afterism: a concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

A good maxim is never out of season.

A quotation at the right moment is like bread in a famine.

Epigrams succeed where epics fail.

How many of us have been first attracted to reason, first learned to think, to draw conclusions, to extract a moral from the follies of life, by some dazzling aphorism from Rochefoucauld or La Bruyere.

There is more poison in aphorisms than in painted candy; but it is of a less seductive kind.

When a thing has been said and well said, have no scruple: take it and copy it.

An aphorism is a single sentence that totally exhausts its subject.

I swim across a sea of quotes, splashing in the words and riding the waves of wisdom.