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Quotes About Wisdom

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth? Perhaps
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Ignorance is beneficial when we are aware of it.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
I liked my scotch undiluted, like I liked my truth. Unfortunately, undiluted truth was as affordable as eighteen-year-old single malt scotch. What about those who have not learned the best of what was thought and said?
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
One must be grateful for one's education no matter how it arrives.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
B]ooks mean something different when return to them later, leavened with age.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Becoming stupider was a consequence of age for which he was unprepared. With
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?...Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. "It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.
~ Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit
if you want to live in the city you have to think ahead three turns, and look behind a lie to see the truth and then behind that truth to see the lie.
~ Vikram Chandra
Vikram Chandra
~ Unknown
May we not be as foolish as we are almost bound to be. If we cannot eschew hatred, at least let us eschew group hatred. May we see that we could have been born as each other. May we, in short, believe in humane logic and perhaps, in due course, love.
~ Vikram Seth
A book of quotations is one which is filled with God's wisdom for a happy life.
~ Unknown
A fine quotation has really no meaning only when one reads without getting any inspiration from it.
~ Unknown
A good quote is like a handle of the bicycle which has the power to take you onto the beautiful path of life.
~ Unknown
A good teacher has a love of teaching. A great teacher has a love of learning.
~ Unknown
A great quote remains great when we not only read it but also apply it to our daily life.
~ Unknown
A little knowledge may or may not be a dangerous thing. It will certainly soon be more expensive.
~ Unknown
A man one year elder to you is one cunning year elder to you.
~ Unknown
A man starts growing old when his wishes turn into regrets.
~ Unknown
A man's present can sometimes be judged by his past.
~ Unknown
A mistake doesn't make you a fool, but denying it surely makes you one.
~ Unknown
A person can understand almost everything deeply through quotations.
~ Unknown
A person who takes warning from the mishaps of others will always be happy.
~ Unknown
A person who thinks that he knows something better doesn't know that his wife knows better than him.
~ Unknown