Quotes About Wisdom

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom; a little nonsense now and then is pleasant.

Whatever advice you give, be brief.

Mistakes are their own instructors

And seek for truth in the groves of Academe.

There is measure in all things.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest how to use it a mistress, if thou knowest not.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure, by delighting and instructing the reader at the same time.

We are free to yield to truth.

To flee vice is the beginning of virtue, and to have got rid of folly is the beginning of wisdom.

Whoever cultivates the golden mean avoids both the poverty of a hovel and the envy of a palace.

Knowledge without education is but armed injustice.

Grant me, sound of body and of mind, to pass an old age lacking neither honor nor the lyre.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Turn the pages of your Greek models night and day.

It is not the rich man you should properly call happy, but him who knows how to use with wisdom the blessings of the gods, to endure hard poverty, and who fears dishonor worse than death, and is not afraid to die for cherished friends or fatherland.

I would not have borne this in my hot youth when Plancus was consul.

A word once uttered can never be recalled.

He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise begin

He who postpones the hour of living rightly is like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

He wins every hand who mingles profit with pleasure.

Mix a little foolishness with your prudence It's good to be silly at the right moment.