Quotes About Wisdom

Teach your tongue to say "I don't know" instead of making up something.

Teaching a learned person is like teaching an eagle to fly.

The first service a child does his father is to make him foolish.

The fool calls everyone around him a fool and everyone around the fool calls the fool a fool.

The fool speaks when he has nothing to say.

The fool thinks he is wise and the wise thinks he is not a fool.

The glory of man is knowledge, but the glory of woman is to renounce knowledge.

The greatest secret of life is to hear lessons and not teach them.

The hardest thing you need to learn in this world is 'how to live', for it is the only thing which is too difficult to be understood.

The important thing in dealing with the Indian is not to believe everything you hear.

The less you say, the more you don't have to apologize.

The man who talks to his wife about his dog instead of singing a love song is a wise man.

The more mistakes you make, the fewer mistakes are left have to be made.

The mouse never takes the advice from the cat.

The mouth of an old man may smell but the advice coming form it is sweet.

The only mistake I really don't make is that I never make the same mistake again.

The study of great quotations is worth more than a college education.

The tragedy is not that the fool talks but that we listen.

The trouble with life is that by the time you know how to play the game, you are too old to make the team.

The wise man stops being wise when he gets angry.

The wise man will say I don't know and the unknowing fool will answer.

The word of a man is a man, so make your words worthwhile.

The worst kind of person is one whose power of speech is greater than his power of thought.

The worst thing about proverbs and quotations is that the fools make no use of them.