Quotes About Wisdom

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

The denunciation of the young is a necessary part of the hygiene of older people, and greatly assists the circulation of the blood.

To fear death, my friends, is only to think ourselves wise, without being wise for it is to think that we know what we do not know. For anything that men can tell, death may be the greatest good that can happen to them but they fear it as if they knew quite well that it was the greatest of evils. And what is this but that shameful ignorance of thinking that we know what we do not know

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stutter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

People say life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

We grow with years more fragile in body, but morally stouter, and can throw off the chill of a bad conscience almost at once.

We are the wise. Do not envy us— We who are too wise to draw near the fire Lest we get burned; We who are too wise to love Lest love should vanish and we be hurt. We are the wise. Do not envy us our wisdom— We who are too wise to live Lest we should die.

The best things in life are simple. Simple things work. They don't foul up. It's the complicated things that get twisted around on you.

Some people are street-smart, some people are book-smart, but most people are just dumber than dirt.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

A person without regrets is called a corpse.

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

If you don't like your teeth; keep your mouth shut.

Old-age sucks, but the alternative doesn't look that great, either.

Today's problems are yesterday's mistakes coming back to bite you in the ass.

Fair play is all well and good. But knowing how to kick 'em in the balls can get you out of a jam 9 times out of 10.

Expect stupid. It's everywhere.

There is no feature as attractive as a well exercised intellect.

Hands are integral with brains, almost another lobe for intelligence. What one does not know through one's hands, one does not truly know.

If you ever have to make a choice between learning and inspiration, choose learning. It works more of the time.

Surely only correct understanding could lead to correct action.

The demands of motherhood especially consume the old self, and replace it with something new, often better and wiser, sometimes wearier or disillusioned, or tense and terrified, certainly more self-knowing, but never the same again.