Quotes About Wisdom

Father, forgive them,' said Jesus, 'for they know not what they do' -- People of good sense whoever you may be, I will add, do not listen to them, for they know not what they say.

My father told me 'Name your price in the beginning. If it ever gets more expensive than the price you name, get out of there.'

Every one of my father's songs is a lesson.

More than fifty-five years ago my father told me, "The Bible does not belong on the shelf but in your hand, under your eye, and in your heart."

There are many things my father taught me here in this room. He taught me: keep your friends close, but your enemies closer.

When I first started racing, my father said, "Win the race as slow as you can.

The older I get, the smarter my father seems to get.

Of all things I liked books best. My father had a large library and whenever I could manage I tried to satisfy my passion for reading.

As my father [Jav?harl?l Nehr?] said, you have to keep an open mind, but you have to pour something into it - otherwise ideas slip away like sand between your fingers.

We gladly put antiquity above our age but not posterity. Only a father doesn't begrudge his son's talent.

Some knowledge is too heavy...you cannot bear it...your Father will carry it until you are able.

In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I've been turning over in my mind ever since.

"Beauty fades," my father would tell me, "but dumb? Dumb is forever."

I would beg the wise and learned fathers [of the church] to consider with all diligence the difference which exists between matters of mere opinion and matters of demonstration.

When a father is quick to lose his tempre, his sons are fools.

It is a wise child that knows his own father. [Lat., Nondum enim quisquam suum parentem ipse cognosvit.]

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

We should not be surprised that the Founding Fathers didn't foresee everything, when we see that the current Fathers hardly ever foresee anything.

My father has taught me all the tricks of the boys at an early age, which has made me very careful.

All the learnin' my father ever paid for was a bit o' birch at one end and the alphabet at th ' other.

My father had very little formal education.

Our fathers gave us many laws which they had learned from their fathers. These laws were good.

The best advice I was ever given was on my twenty-first birthday when my father said, Son, here's a million dollars. Don't lose it.

It's important to learn from the past and people's experiences, not only from my father's [Pablo Escobar] as a drug dealer, but from others that have ended just the way he did.