Quotes About Wisdom

Dig the well before you are thirsty.

It isn't what you know that counts, it's what you think of in time.

Remedy it or welcome it: a wise man's only two choices.

To know the road ahead, ask those coming back.

God is good, but never dance in a small boat.

To learn about eye protection, ask someone who has one.

Your safety gears are between your ears.

The word is mightier than the sword.

Love and respect old age people because you are aging too…

The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.

Beauty exists at every age. It's not about youth and perfection.

Old age needs so little but needs that little so much.

Old age is not so bad when you consider the alternative.

Associate with noblest people you can find; read the best books; live with the mighty. But learn to be happy alone. Rely upon your own energies, and so not wait for, or depend on other people.

My dad always taught me if I have my education, anything is possible.

"What's that line from T.S. Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up."

"Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know"

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

No normal man ever fell in love after thirty when the kidneys begin to disintegrate.

The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.

The truth is that the average schoolmaster, on all the lower levels, is and always must be essentially and next door to an idiot, for how can one imagine an intelligent man engaging in so puerile an avocation?

The only people who make no mistakes are dead people. I saw a man last week who has not made a mistake for four hundred years. He was a mummy in the Egyptian department of the British Museum." - H.L. Wayland