Quotes About Wisdom

Truth is the most valuable thing we have, so I try to conserve it.

I am pushing sixty. That is enough exercise for me.

Of the demonstrably wise there are but two: those who commit suicide, and those who keep their reasoning faculties atrophied by drink.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.

A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.

I've never let my school interfere with my education.

The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right.

The proper proportions of a maxim: a minimum of sound to a maximum of sense.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

It is best to read the weather forecast before praying for rain.

A person that started in to carry a cat home by the tail was gitting knowledge that was always going to be useful to him, and warn't ever going to grow dim or doubtful.

I can always tell which is the front end of a horse, but beyond that, my art is not above the ordinary.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose.

All schools, all colleges have two great functions to confer, and to conceal valuable knowledge. - Notebook, 1908

Behold, the fool saith, Put not all thine eggs in the one basket, -- which is but a manner of saying, Scatter your money and your attention, but the wise man saith, Put all your eggs in the one basket and -- watch that basket.

Carlyle said, "A lie cannot live"; it shows he did not know how to tell them.

God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board

His ignorance covered the whole earth like a blanket, and there was hardly a hole in it anywhere.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerve give to wisdom.

Some people get an eduction without going to college the rest get it after they get out.

The first of April is the day we remember what we are the other 364 days of the year.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The trouble isn't that there are too many fools, but that the lightning isn't distributed right.

Youth, large, lusty, loving- Youth, full of grace, force, fascination. Do you know that Old Age may come after you with equal grace, force, fascination