Quotes About Wisdom

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are, first, hard work; second, stick-to-itiveness; third, common sense.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Men have become fools with their tools.

History's lessons don't expire after a few decades.

A book that is shut is but a block.

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

Light, God's eldest daughter...

A proverb is much matter decocted into a few words.

If you command wisely, you'll be obeyed cheerfully.

If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Learning hath gained most by those books by which the printers have lost.

If thou art a master, be sometimes blind if a servant, sometimes deaf.

Zeal without knowledge is fire without light.

Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

Change of weather is the discourse of fools.

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

History maketh a young man to be old, without either wrinkles or gray hairs; privileging him with the experience of age, without either the infirmities or inconveniences thereof.

He knows little who will tell his wife all he knows.

Better be alone than in bad company.

Scalded cats fear even cold water.

Choose a wife by your ear than your eye.

Do nothing hastily but catching of fleas.

He is not laughed at who laughs at himself first.

Learning makes a man fit company for himself.