Quotes About Wisdom

The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

Against the may, the could be, and the should, folly 'tis to balance doubt or hope.

Never trust a spy you cannot see. The Duke is lamer than I am old, and I am shorter than he is cold, but it comes to you with some surprise that I am wiser than he is wise.

I'll never know the right answer for sex and marriage, sense and mirage.

I trust that this collection of pieces will prove that I ave not become, at sixty six going on fifty, as one friend of mine gallantly put it, completely lugubrious.

Civilization is knowledge, even more than it is urbanization, for you cannot have the latter without the former. Everything builds on everything else. And the knowledge of civilization is kept in repositories known as...LIBRARIES, and if books burn, civilization burns with them.

Once you have learned how to ask questions—relevant and appropriate and substantial questions—you have learned how to learn and no one can keep you from learning whatever you want or need to know. —NEIL POSTMAN AND CHARLES WEINGARTNER2

The Truth can set us free.

It would be better not to know so many things than to know so many things that are not so. -Josh Billings

Do not try to satisfy your vanity by teaching a great many things. Awaken people's curiosity. It is enough to open minds; do not overload them. —ANATOLE FRANCE

history is the only field in which the more courses students take, the stupider they become.

People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions," Helen Keller pointed out. "Conclusions are not always pleasant."42

Knowledge without wisdom is like water in the sand. ~ Guinean Proverb

A man who uses force is afraid of reasoning. ~ Kenyan Proverb

Lack of knowledge is darker than night. ~ African Proverb

If you close your eyes to facts, you will learn through accidents. ~ African Proverb

He, who learns, teaches. ~ Ethiopian Proverb

Wealth, if you use it, comes to an end; learning, if you use it, increases. ~ Swahili Proverb

A fight between grasshoppers is a joy to the crow. ~ Lesotho Proverb

Cross the river in a crowd and the crocodile won't eat you. ~ African Proverb

The old woman looks after the child to grow its teeth and the young one in turn looks after the old woman when she loses her teeth. ~ African Proverb

Knowledge is better than riches. ~ Cameroonian Proverb

Patience is the key which solves all problems. ~ Sudanese Proverb

In fact, to speak in earnest, I believe it adds a charm To spice the good a trifle with a little dust of harm