Quotes About Wisdom

Thus I rediscovered what writers have always known (and have told us again and again): books always speak of other books, and every story tells a story that has already been told.

Love is wiser than wisdom.

We live for books. A sweet mission in this world dominated by disorder and decay.

As the man said, for every complex problem there's a simple solution, and it's wrong.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.

Primero el amor, el conocimiento después.

Each day is a loan, spend it wisely.

They say that age is all in your mind. The trick is keeping it from creeping down into your body.

There are no foolish questions, only foolish silence

He who knows all the answers has not yet been asked all the questions.

Your intelligence is measured by those around you; if you spend your days with idiots you seal your own fate.

Don't waste your youth growing up.

This is a youth-oriented society, and the joke is on them because youth is a disease from which we all recover

Experience is the worst teacher. It always gives the test first and the instruction afterward.

It is impossible to win an argument with an ignorant man

Sometimes when you're arguing with a fool, he's doing the same thing.

In an argument the best weapon to hold is your tongue.

A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall never sit in

Knowledge is like a garden: if it is not cultivated, it cannot be harvested.

A fool in love makes no sense to me. I only think you are a fool If you do not love.

Truth fears no questions.

Beware of the half truth. You may have gotten hold of the wrong half.

A prudent question is one half the wisdom.

Think all you speak, but speak not all you think.