Quotes About Wisdom

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is this, to have knowledge of the truth but no power over the event.

No one is so senseless as to choose of his own will war rather than peace, since in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.

The longer the span of someone's existence, the more certain he is to see and suffer much that he would rather have been spared.

If I had to come up with something that just came to me, I think growing up in a small town, I want knowledge. I still think today, knowledge is one of the keys.

Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you she is after your barn.

Fools, they do not even know how much more is the half than the whole.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age, not far short of 30 years, nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

Observe due measure, for right timing is in all things the most important factor.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

Whoever, fleeing marriage and the sorrows that women cause, does not wish to wed comes to a deadly old age.

On his tongue they pour sweet dew, and from his mouth flow gentle words.

Man's chiefest treasure is a sparing tongue.

The fool knows after he's suffered.

We know how to speak many falsehoods that resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

But he who neither thinks for himself nor learns from others, is a failure as a man.

That man is best who sees the truth himself. Good too is he who listens to wise counsel. But who is neither wise himself nor willing to ponder wisdom is not worth a straw.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascination of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

No gossip ever dies away entirely, if many people voice it: It too is a kind of divinity.

It is fine to draw on what is on hand, and painful to have need and not have anything there; I warn you to be carful in this. When the bottle has just been opened, and when it's giving out, drink deep; be sparing when it's half-full; but it's useless to spare the fag end.

Better marry a maiden, so you can teach her good manners, and in particular marry one who lives close by you. Look her well over first. Don't marry what will make your neighbors laugh at you, for while there's nothing better a man can win him than a good wife, there's nothing more dismal than a bad one.

Misquotation is, in fact, the pride and privilege of the learned. A widely- read man never quotes accurately, for the rather obvious reason that he has read too widely.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they do not read.

The great threat to the young and pure in heart is not what they read but what they don't read.

Here you have learned the theories of life," continued the Headmaster, resuming the thread of his discourse, "but after all, life is not a matter of theories. Life is a matter of facts. It calls on the young and the old alike to face these facts, even though they are hard and sometimes unpleasant. Your problem, for example, is to slay dragons.