Quotes About Wisdom

Foolishness always results when the tongue outraces the brain.

Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths.

If something goes without saying, let it.

Don't speak unless you can improve on the silence.

Let papers speak and beards be silent.

Not the fastest horse can catch a word spoken in anger.

If you wish to live and thrive, Let the spider run alive.

Spring is sooner recognized by plants than by men.

Cold weather in spring makes the ass shiver.

Statistics is a body of methods for making wise decisions in the face of uncertainty.

For the story — from Rumpelstiltskin to War and Peace — is one of the basic tools invented by the mind of man, for the purpose of gaining understanding. There have been great societies that did not use the wheel, but there have been no societies that did not tell stories.

Take-it-easy and Live-long are brothers.

Think before you ink!

Tea elevates our minds so that we can see our problems from a distance — through the fine mists of contemplation.

To teach is to learn twice.

The secret of teaching is to appear to have known all your life what you learned this afternoon.

Once an old man, spoken of in one of Aesop's fables, believing himself at death's door, called his twelve sons to his bedside and gave to them a bundle of twelve stout sticks, which he asked them all in turn to break, which task they were unable to do. The father, separating the bundle, gave to each a stick which he readily broke. Now, the moral to be deducted from this fable is eminently applicable to us as an organization, and means that in union there is strength.

...inwardly, we're much older than other girls our age. Even though I'm only fourteen... I feel I'm more of a person than a child...

Most of the ills we suffer from are directly traceable to our own behavior... Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. There is no mystery about disease, nor crime, nor war, nor the thousand and one things which plague us. Live simply and wisely.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

And it is often in the past that the secret of the future lies!

The past is not a package one can lay away.

Bring the past only if you are going to build from it.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!