Quotes About Wisdom

Wisdom is better than silver and gold

Our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas

Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.

The only good thing about [aging] is you're not dead.

If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the wholeworld will be blind and toothless.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.

A good man always knows his limitations.

I'm here to tell you that I am proud of a couple of things. First, I am very good at projectile vomiting. Second, I've never had a really serious venereal disease.

God gives His deepest discernment and sharpest marksmanship to men who aim to expose His truth before an enemy's lies.

Nothing is more important than a good education.

Good words cool more than cold water.

If good things are coming, they will be a pleasant surprise," said the seer. "If bad things are, and you know in advance, you will suffer greatly before they even occur.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Good fortune is the greatest of blessings, but good counsel comes next, and the lack of it destroys the other also.

Good words are worth much, and cost little.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

The failure to read good books both enfeebles the vision and strengthens our most fatal tendency - the belief that the here and now is all there is.

I've been lucky that I've been around good people, who kept me grounded and taught me.

Do not let any sweet-talking woman beguile your good sense with the fascinations of her shape. It's your barn she's after.

Put an end once and for all to this discussion of what a good person should be, and be one.

Genius creates, and taste preserves. Taste is the good sense of genius; without taste, genius is only sublime folly.

You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.

Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.