Quotes About Wisdom

My father told me I should marry the woman that loves me, not the woman I loved.

What the father kept silent the son speaks out.

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

Jarrell was not so much a father . . . as an affectionate encyclopedia.

I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus.

The ordinary saying is, Count money after your father; so the same prudence adviseth to measure the ends of all counsels, though uttered by never so intimate a friend.

Every son quotes his father, in words and in deeds.

My father described me as the oldest baby he'd ever seen. I apparently was very serious and reflective.

Giving your son a skill is better than giving him one thousand pieces of gold.

They're mutually incompatible I feel; being a wise thief and a wise father.

That which thy fathers have bequeathed to thee, earn it anew if thou wouldst possess it.

My father said, 'When in doubt, castle.'

I clearly understood the concept of wise use before I ever heard the actual words, for my father wouldn't allow us to waste anything.

When I was a kid, the book that I liked the most was 'Aesop's Fables.' There was a version of it that my father read stories to us kids out of. I liked the idea of the short story format.

As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.

My father always told me that. "Nobody knows anything, so don't listen to anyone else."

My father used to say that stupid people think. (I really don't agree with him!)

A wise man lays up treasures in the Kingdom of our Father, so as to live a happy eternal life

When I was a boy, my own dad told me in a smiling and wistful way that it's a wise man that knows his own father.

My father always said, 'Never trust anyone whose TV is bigger than their book shelf' - so I make sure I read.

When I was 18, I thought my father was pretty dumb. After a while when I got to be 21, I was amazed to find out how much he'd learned in three years.

The Scriptures are shallow enough for a babe to come and drink without fear of drowning and deep enough for theologians to swim in without ever reaching the bottom.

The more knowledge you have, the greater will be your fear of Allah.

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.