Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop Than when we soar.

Come forth into the light of things, Let Nature be your teacher.

Thy books should, like thy friends, not many be/Yet such wherein men may thy judgment see.

Tis my maxim, he's a fool that marries, but he's a greater that does not marry a fool.

You know, an old man like me can teach a young boy like you all the good things in life. But it takes a young boy like you to teach an old man like me to appreciate all the good things in life. I guess that's what life's all about.

I remembered something my grandfather had told me. He said, "Never underestimate the cunning of an old river coon. When the nights are dark and the ground is frozen and slick, they can pull some mean tricks on a hound. Sometimes the tricks can be fatal.

the more opinions you have, the less you see

But questioning does not mean the end of loving, and loving does not mean the abnegation of intelligence

God can use the jawbone of an ass!

Eating words has never given me indigestion.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.

Do not let spacious plans for a new world divert your energies from saving what is left of the old.

My education was interrupted only by my schooling.

When eagles are silent, parrots begin to chatter.

It is always more easy to discover and proclaim general principles than to apply them.

One clear-cut result is worth a dozen wise precautions.

nothing would be more fatal than for the Government of States to get in the hands of experts. Expert knowledge is limited knowledge, and the unlimited ignorance of the plain man who knows where it hurts is a safer guide than any rigorous direction of a specialized character.

By swallowing evil word unsaid noone has ever yet harmed his stomach.

Short words are best, and old words when short are best of all.

Men sometimes stumble over the truth, but often pick themselves up and hurry off as though nothing had happened

Non complicate le cose, ci saranno già le cose a complicarsi da sole.

If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them...let them be your friends.

Once in a while we will stumble upon the truth, but most of us manage to pick ourselves up and hurry along as if nothing happened.