Quotes About Wisdom

Ralph... would treat the day's decisions as though he were playing chess. The only trouble was that he would never be a very good chess player.

A proverb has three characteristics: few words, good sense, and a fine image.

A good book is the purest essence of a human soul.

He shook my hand and said goodbye with a sentence that might have been either good advice or a threat: "Take good care of yourself.

Be a collector of good ideas. Keep a journal. If you hear a good idea, capture it, write it down. Don't trust your memory.

Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.

I prefer to be refuted than to refute, for it is a greater good for oneself to be freed from the greatest evil than to free another.

A good book is like a seed: it produces fruit that has in it seed for more fruit. It is not a picture on the wall; it is a window that invies us to wider horizons.

One good schoolmaster is worth a thousand priests.

The one good thing about repeating your mistakes is that you know when to cringe

Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.

Courage is often lack of insight, whereas cowardice in many cases is based on good information.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Bad books engender bad habits, but bad habits engender good books.

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit.

A library is a good place to go when you feel bewildered or undecided, for there in a book, you may have your question answered

All good Literature rests primarily on insight.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, 'Too much of a good thing can be wonderful'.

It is easier to get one or a few of good sense, and of ability to legislate and adjudge, than to get many.

Distance is a good teacher. You only fully understand that which you have lost.

Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

If we could follow the slogan that says,"Turn off the TV and open a good book" we would do something of substance for a future generation.

Those who forget good and evil and seek only to know the facts are more likely to achieve good than those who view the world through the distorting medium of their own desires.

Luck, bad if not good, will always be with us. But it has a way of favoring the intelligent and showing its back to the stupid.