Quotes About Wisdom

Young men are apt to think themselves wise enough, as drunken men are apt to think themselves sober enough.

Whoever is in a hurry shows that the thing he is about is too big for him

In matters of religion and matrimony I never give advice, because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Common sense is the best sense I know of

There is no living in the world without a complaisant indulgence for people's weaknesses, and innocent, though ridiculous vanities. If a man has a mind to be thought wiser, and a woman handsomer, than they really are, their error is a comfortable one to themselves, and an innocent one with regard to other people; and I would rather make them my friends by indulging them in it it, than my enemies, by endeavouring, and that to no purpose, to undeceive them.

no pierdas tiempo, hijo mio, en formar tu gusto, tus modales, tu mente y todo lo que has de tener; pues lo que, hasta cierto punto, seas a los veinte anos, eso, con poca diferencia, seras todo el resto de tu vida

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

Thus have I, as well as I could, gathered a posey of observations as they grew; and if some rue and wormwood be found among the sweeter herbs, their wholesomeness will make amends for their bitterness.

Your friends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs nor allowing you to manage your own, without thinking that you should follow theirs. Thus, in fact, they all think themselves wiser than you, whatever they may say.

What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass.

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

Minds are like parachutes they work best when open.

It's good to remember where you've been.

If we know the Lord, we have already heard His voice--after all, it was the inner leading that brought us to Him in the first place. But we can hear His voice once and still miss His best if we don't keep on listening.

Experience is like rhubarb. You got to add sugar to make a pie.

There is no gravity," I said. He grinned lopsidedly. "The earth sucks. Ain't it the truth.

Perhaps he knew, there in the grass by the waters, that he had before him an immense journey.

The secret, if one may paraphrase a savage vocabulary, lies in the egg of night.

its own stability, however, it may well be that man himself is slowly achieving powers over a new dimension—a dimension capable of presenting him with a wisdom he has barely

Taking a final pleasure in what the wind can neither proclaim nor destroy, I am a student of nightfall, I claim no other profession.