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Quotes About Wisdom

We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we are asleep than when we are awake.
~ Erich Fromm
Wise men have interpreted dreams, and the gods have laughed.
~ Unknown
Books are not only the arbitrary sum of our dreams, and our memory. They also give us the model of self-transcende nce.
~ Susan Sontag
It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.
~ Randy Pausch
A good library can provide the furniture of our minds and the threads from which we weave our dreams.
~ Anne Perry
Don't share your dreams with everyone. Make them a reality - then share.
~ Unknown
I almost think there is no wisdom comparable to that of exchanging what is called the realities of life for dreams
~ Hugh Walpole
Isn't the Almighty always saying something, girl? Speaking through everything created, whispering in your hopes and dreams. Urging you to get on with business?
~ Kersten Hamilton
You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
~ Elizabeth Warren
Donating your time to an unworthy situation is spending your emotional cash to bankrupt your dreams ~Bluenscottish
~ Bluenscottish
You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.
~ Jeffrey Fry
Beguildy looked at me over the rim of a great measure of mead. 'Saddle your dreams afore you ride 'em, my wench, ' he said.
~ Mary Webb, Precious Bane
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
~ Aristotle
Some people get an education without going to college. The rest get it after they get out.
~ Mark Twain
An unschooled man who knows how to meditate upon the Lord has learned far more than the man with the highest education who does not know how to meditate.
~ Charles Stanley
The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
~ Malcolm Forbes
The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.
~ Sydney J. Harris
Education: the path from cocky ignorance to miserable uncertainty.
~ Mark Twain
Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.
~ Albert Einstein
Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
~ C.S. Lewis
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
~ Oscar Wilde
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.
~ Mark Twain
Give your child a single valuable idea, and you have done more for his education than if you had laid upon his mind the burden of bushels of information.
~ Charlotte Mason
The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
~ Martin Luther King, Jr.