Quotes About Wisdom

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Here cometh April again, and as far as I can see the world hath more fools in it than ever.

Credulity is the man's weakness, but the child's strength.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

We grow gray in our spirit long before we grow gray in our hair.

Cleanliness, said some sage man, is next to godliness. It may be, but how it came to sit so near is the marvel.

Think what you would have been now, if instead of being fed with tales and old wives' fables in childhood, you had been crammed with geography and natural history!

There is more reason to say grace before beginning a book than there is to say it before beginning to dine.

I counsel thee, shut not thy heart nor thy library

We receive three educations, one from our parents, one from our schoolmasters, and one from the world. The third contradicts all that the first two teach us.

Spending that many hours in the saddle gave a man plenty of time to think. That's why so many cowboys fancied themselves Philosophers.

I never made a mistake in my life. I thought I did once, but I was wrong.

There's a difference between a philosophy and a bumper sticker.

Lucy: You learn more when you lose Charlie Brown: Well then I must be the smartest person in world!!!

Never jump into a pile of leaves with a wet sucker.

Beauty tips. How to look younger: Don't be born so soon.

There's no sense in doing a lot of barking if you don't really have anything to say.

Your stupidity is appalling!" "Most stupidity is!

Never give your heart to a blockhead.

You know what Oscar Wilde said, ma'am? He said, "nothing that is worth knowing can be taught". Nothing personal, ma'am... Carry on.

Going to our school is an education in itself which is not to be confused with actually getting an education.

Sometimes I lie awake at night thinking about all the dumb things I do every day... If I live to be eighty and I do ten dumb things each day... That would be about two hundred and ninety thousand dumb things... When you add up all the dumb things you do, it's best to use round figures...

My last penny! I think I'll squander it on myself. I never feel badly about spending money my dad has earned honestly! I can't decide whether I should buy a balloon or a gumball. A gumball would taste mighty good, but a balloon would be a lot more fun... I'll take a balloon! Sooner or later in life a person has to learn to make decisions! (Sees someone with a different color balloon) Gee, I wish I'd bought a RED balloon.

Ten milligrams equals one centigram. Ten decigrams equals one gram. Ten grams equals one grampa." "Keep going... I can hardly wait to see what comes next...