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Quotes About Wisdom

Why don't somebody wake up to the beauty of old women?
~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
Beautiful is greater than Good, for it includes the Good.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
What is it to grow old? Is it to lose the glory of the form, The lustre of the eye? Is it for Beauty to forego her wreath? Yes; but not this alone.
~ Matthew Arnold
Beauty is like an almanack: if it lasts a year it is well.
~ Thomas Adams
All beauty comes from beautiful blood and a beautiful brain.
~ Walt Whitman
Marrying a woman for her beauty makes no more sense than eating a bird for its singing. But it's a common mistake nonetheless.
~ Charles Frazier
It is goodness that gives to a neighborhood its beauty. One who is free to choose, yet does not prefer to dwell among the good - how can he be accorded the name of wise?
~ Confucius
Beauty isn't made of sugar.
~ Unknown
Beauty with character ages better than perfection.
~ Karl Lagerfeld
Truth reveals itself in beauty.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
That is the eternal folly of man. To be chasing after the sweet flesh, without realizing that it is simply a pretty cover for the bones.
~ Neil Gaiman, American Gods
Happily there exists more than one kind of beauty. There is the beauty of infancy, the beauty of youth, the beauty of maturity, and, believe me, ladies and gentlemen, the beauty of age.
~ George Augustus Henry Sala
That fair face will as years roll on lose its beauty, and old age will bring its wrinkles to the brow.
~ Ovid
Truth is the first thing to be sought for, and Beauty and Goodness will then be added unto you.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Nothing is more ridiculous in old people that were once good-looking, than to forget that they are not so still.
~ Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Aurelie Sheehan's absorbing stories have depth miles beneath their compelling surface. They radiate a wisdom, beauty and originality rare in contemporary fiction.
~ Frederic Tuten
Beauty is a valuable asset, but it is not the whole cheese.
~ Ginger Rogers
Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.
~ Louisa May Alcott
Everything is nothing, but the beauty of nothing is everthing
~ Unknown
The beauty of age is we grow, we learn. We have more wisdom. And as much as the youth-glorifying Hollywood would like us to believe, it's nothing. They're wrong.
~ Sherilyn Fenn
Sometimes a loss is the best thing that can happen. It teaches you what you should have done next time.
~ Snoop Dogg
The best investment you can make, is an investment in yourself... The more you learn, the more you'll earn.
~ Warren Buffett
Your worst mistakes is actually your best advice.
~ Mod Sun