Quotes About Wisdom

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

We come late, if at all, to wine and philosophy: whiskey and action are easier.

In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

Albert Einstein when asked what he considered to be the most powerful force in the universe answered: Compound interest! What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

Make it thy business to know thyself, which is the most difficult lesson in the world.

It is respectable to have no illusions, and safe, and profitable and dull.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself to-day for to-morrow, and not to venture all his eggs in one basket.

Let none presume to tell me that the pen is preferable to the sword.

Miguel de Cervantes

The knowledge of yourself will preserve you from vanity.

He preaches well that lives well, quoth Sancho; that's all the divinity I understand.

'Tis the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow, and not venture all his eggs in one basket.

For if he like a madman lived,At least he like a wise one died.

Of good natural parts, and of a liberal education.

Little said is soon amended.

Truth will rise above falsehood as oil above water.