Quotes About Wisdom

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know…

If the truth were known, he was half starved, and yet there was still no end of books he ought to read before he died.

There are more things in Heaven and Earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

All that glisters is not gold; Often have you heard that told: Many a man his life hath sold But my outside to behold: Gilded tombs do worms enfold.

Listen to many, speak to a few.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

When we are born, we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

Better a witty fool, than a foolish wit.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

Go wisely and slowly. Those who rush stumble and fall.

There's an old saying that applies to me: you can't lose a game if you don't play the game. (Act 1, scene 4)

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man's son doth know.

Many a true word hath been spoken in jest.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

Thou and I are too wise to woo peaceably.

Love moderately. Long love doth so. Too swift arrives as tardy as too slow. *Love each other in moderation. That is the key to long-lasting love. Too fast is as bad as too slow.*

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything. I would not change it.

The weight of this sad time we must obey, Speak what we feel, not what we ought to say. The oldest hath borne most: we that are young Shall never see so much, nor live so long.

Thou shouldst not have been old till thou hadst been wise.

William Shakespeare

I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

Men of few words are the best men. (3.2.41)

Who knows himself a braggart, let him fear this, for it will come to pass that every braggart shall be found an ass.