Quotes About Wisdom

Have enough sense to know, ahead of time, when your skills will not extend to wallpapering.

For your information, I would like to ask a question.

Everybody knows how to raise children, except the people who have them.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

One of life's greatest mysteries is how the boy who wasn't good enough to marry your daughter can be the father of the smartest grandchild in the world

Every girl should use what Mother Nature gave her before Father Time takes it away

In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed

The Titanic is a great lesson of why just the tip can get you in a lot of trouble.

There is surely a future hope for you, and your hope will not be cut off. Listen, my son, and be wise, and keep your heart on the right path. -Proverbs 23:18-19

If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work upon brass, time will efface it; if we rear temples, they will crumble into dust; but if we work upon immortal minds and instill into them just principles, we are then engraving that upon tablets which no time will efface, but will brighten and brighten to all eternity.

Wisdom and knowledge, as well as virtue, diffused generally among the body of the people being necessary for the preservation of their rights and liberties; and as these depend on spreading the opportunities and advantages of education in various parts of the country, and among the different orders of the people, it shall be the duty of legislators and magistrates in all future periods of this commonwealth to cherish the interests of literature and the sciences

Instruction ends in the schoolroom, but education ends only with life. A child is given to the universe to be educated.

Education is the key to unlock the golden door of freedom.

Education is what remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. ...

Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates.

Don't judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.

From where the sun now stands I will fight no more.

A beautiful girl is a beautiful girl, but a beautiful girl with a brain is an absolutely lethal combination.

Patience makes a women beautiful in middle age.