Quotes About Wisdom

I am a bear of little brain.

If there was one thing that life has taught me, it's to accept the most foolish and unthinkable happiness.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

When I was one-and-twentyI heard a wise man say,"Give crowns and pounds and guineasBut not your heart away."

When I was one-and-twentyI heard him say again,"The heart out of the bosomWas never given in vain;'Tis paid with sighs aplentyAnd sold for endless rue."And I am two-and-twenty,And Oh, 'tis true, 'tis true.

The house of delusions is cheap to build but drafty to live in.

Therefore, since the world has still Much good, but much less good than ill, And while the sun and moon endure Luck's a chance, but trouble's sure, I'd face it as a wise man would, And train for ill and not for good.

An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.

The mind is like the stomach. It is not how much you put into it that counts, but how much it digests.

He was what I often think is a dangerous thing for a statesman to be - a student of history and like most of those who study history, he learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

There are areas of New England, plenty of them, with quaintness to spare, with color-changing leaves and folksy folks full of folksy homespun wisdom accompanied by folksy accents

I wanted to glance one last time over my shoulder, but there was no reason to. Looking behind would only show me the things I'd seen, and everything of importance I could always see

What is it that demands an answer but never asks a question?

Truth comes to us mediated by human love.

I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter ' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.

My heart, have you know wisdom thus to despair? My love, my love, why have you left me alone?

Un asno viejo sabe mas que un potro. (An old ass knows more than an old colt.)-A Wrinkle in Time

No humbling of reality to precept.

Let the night teach us what we are, and the day what we should be. THOMAS TRYON, 16911 T

Perlu ramai "intelektual", bukan "intelekjual".

Paduan fikir, buku; himpun kuasa, kubu.

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer.

cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom.