Quotes About Wisdom

He couldn't believe that there were so many books in the world. Who could possibly read them all?

Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.

I always say, 'Books beat boredom,' said Amanda wisely.

The young must not scoff at the old, for flowers don't bloom forever

Don't swallow a scythe if your stomach isn't curved

Il nonno dimenticò che il sole, dopo aver brillato, si oscura, che la luna divenuta piena comincia a declinare, che un recipiente pieno si capovolge e che alla prosperità segue la decadenza; e commise un grave errore nel voler organizzare un grande funerale per la nonna.

Le cose del mondo sono come i libri, che vanno sfogliati una pagina per volta. Gli uomini devono guardare avanti ed evitare di rivangare vecchie questioni; i cani devono avanzare con i tempi e fronteggiare la realtà.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

Only fools are positive.

The ink of the scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

The ink of a scholar is more sacred than the blood of the martyr.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of life.

Silence is golden when you can't think of a good answer

Freedom is not worth having if it does not connote freedom to err.

The expert knows more and more about less and less until he knows everything about nothing.

Victory attained by violence is tantamount to a defeat, for it is momentary.

There is no god higher than truth.

God, as Truth, has been for me a treasure beyond price. May He be so to every one of us.

There is more to life than simply increasing its speed.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

I have nothing new to teach the world. Truth and Non-violence are as old as the hills. All I have done is to try experiments in both on as vast a scale as I could.

All the religions of the world, while they may differ in other respects, unitedly proclaim that nothing lives in this world but Truth.

Truth is by nature self-evident. As soon as you remove the cobwebs of ignorance that surround it, it shines clear.