Quotes About Wisdom

No man is a good doctor who has never been sick himself.

The best surgeon is he that has been well hacked himself.

A surgeon should be young, a physician old.

The doctor is often more to be feared than the disease.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

We are dying to-day from ignorance, not from knowledge...

Anybody who wants to rule the world should try to rule a garden first.

Essential advice for the gardener: grow peas of mind, lettuce be thankful, squash selfishness, turnip to help thy neighbor, and always make thyme for loved ones.

Old gardeners never die, they just run out of thyme.

Keep a thing seven years and it's bound to come in handy.

Adversity is the first path to truth...

The tongue rolles there where the teeth aketh.

The Tongue is ever turning to the aching Tooth.

Better tooth out than always ache.

The teeth form a barrier to check wanton words.

Scorpios know that sometimes the poison is the cure.

A truly special teacher is very wise, and sees tomorrow in every child's eyes.

The great teacher inspires — the others merely instruct.

Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number.

Just remember, there's a right way and a wrong way to do everything and the wrong way is to keep trying to make everybody else do it the right way.

Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped.

Life itself is a mixture of power and form, and will not bear the least excess of either. To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Fear less, hope more; eat less, chew more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.

When you lose, don't lose the lesson.