Quotes About Wisdom

All that we know is nothing, we are merely crammed wastepaper baskets, unless we are in touch with that which laughs at all our knowing.

Information's pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience.

Woman is the light of God.

Old women can see through walls.

The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God's Spirit.

The fear of women is the beginning of knowledge.

I think just all girls are my mentors. I feel like I've learned everything I know from just being around other women and learning from them.

Women may be the one group that grows more radical with age.

I'm not big on women looking naive.

When women cease to be handsome, they study to be good.

Older people exude bundles of sexuality. Older men and women tend not run around like cats and dogs in heat.

I wish the world was run by women. Women who have given birth and know the value of their creation.

Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.

Women are not so well united as to form an Insurrection. They are for the most part wise enough to love their Chains, and to discern how becomingly they fit.

Dishonesty is not the only alternative to honesty. There is also the highly underrated virtue of shutting up.

When you hit seventy you sleep sounder, you feel more alive than when you were thirty. Obviously it's healthier to have women on your mind than on your knees.

There is no gown or garment that worse becomes a woman than when she will be wise.

You can't beat women anyhow and that if you are wise or dislike trouble and uproar you don't even try to.

If you want to be a dear old lady at seventy you have to begin early, say about seventeen.

Hags live. Women traveling into feminist time/space are creating Hag-ocracy, the place we govern. To govern is to steer, to pilot.

We older women who know we aren't heroines can offer our younger sisters, at the very least, an honest report of what we have learned and how we have grown.

Women rule the world. It's not really worth fighting because they know what they're doing. Ask Napoleon. Ask Adam. Ask Richard Burton or Richie Sambora. Many a man has crumbled.

Women have the understanding of the heart, which is better than that of the head.

The older you are, the more you have to offer. Life begins at 40 and it just gets better and better.