Quotes About Wisdom

Who would regard all things complacently must wink at a great many.

...winking all the way as a vent for his superfluous sagacity...

I know as well as you must that there are many articles of belief clinging to the skirts of our time which are the bequests of the ages of ignorance that God winked at.

Every man is a damn fool at least ten minutes a day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.

It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences...

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid.

Who loves not women, wine, and song, remains a fool his whole life long.

You can never worry your way to enlightenment.

With sixty staring me in the face, I have developed inflammation of the sentence structure and a definite hardening of the paragraphs.

These things sift through our minds, with the years, like sand, and find their way out in ink.

He who is born a fool is never cured.

If every fool wore a crown, we should all be kings.

It is forbidden to tell anything that has no foundation.

Cancer changes your life. You learn what's important, you learn to prioritize, you learn not to waste your time. My friend Gilda Radner used to say, "If it weren't for the downside, everyone would want to have it."

Life is my college. May I graduate well, and earn some honors!

A house needs a grandma in it.

A grandfather is someone with silver in his hair and gold in his heart.

Grandfathers are for loving and fixing things.

If nothing is going well, call your grandmother.

A grandmother is a little bit parent, a little bit teacher, and a little bit best friend.