Quotes About Wisdom

Three craggy pines stood at the edge of the green -- like Wise Men who found what they were looking for.

Well, maybe her need to be right will be tempered by her curiosity.

testament to a life well lived.

I know what I'm doing," said Armand. "And I know an epitaph when I hear it.

There are four statements that lead to wisdom.

I always want to tell him everything. But instead I said, "What's your advice, Horn - meister?" And he started doing pretend beard stroking and said, "Well, luuurve is a many trousered thing. . . .

As I have said with huge wisdomosity many times, boys the world over are a bloody mystery.

Louise Shaffer

Love is like liquor, the drunker and more impotent you are, the stronger and smarter you think yourself and the surer you are of your rights.

Life is filigree work. What is written clearly is not worth much, it's the transparency that counts.

Always Follow your heart.....but take your brains with you

Just because you CAN sing doesn't mean you should.

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The diiference between men and dogs is dogs don't allow the dumbest and most inept members to become leaders of the pack.

You can get a goat to climb tree, but you'd be better off hiring a squirrel.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

All I want is to know things. The black gulph of the infinite is before me ...

I think you have to get better, as you get older. Or, your perspective gets better, even if the work doesn't seem any better. When I was writing songs when I was 17, I was trying to write from a more experienced point of view. As you get older, you're not writing from an imagined point of view. You guess less.

When trying to explain anything, I usually find that the Bible, that great collection of magnificent and varied poetry, has said it before in the best possible way.

Though old the thought and oft expressed, 'Tis his at last who says it best.

A profound common sense is the best genius for statesmanship.

Jealous, the old gods Shut it in shadow, Wisely they ward it, Egg of the serpent, Bane to them all.

Softly comes Old Age, the thief, Steals the rapture, leaves the throes.

The wisest man could ask no more of Fate Than to be simple, modest, manly, true, Safe from the Many -- honored by the Few; To count as naught in World or Church or State; But inwardly in secret to be great.