Quotes About Wisdom

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

It's no good being nice and young and naive. There's no good in that at all. You've got to do it all yourself, and you've gotta learn quick. And you can't look for sympathy either.

I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.

King old ladies assure us that cats are often the best judges of character. A cat will always to to a good man, they say.

Only good questions deserve good answers.

Thou sufferest justly: for thou choosest rather to become good to-morrow than to be good to-day.

It's my hope that as you dip your toe into the Bible's story and viewpoint, you'll find yourself feeling that the Good Book knows more about the world - and about you - than any normal book does.

To give requires good sense.

My advice to the unborn is, don't be born with a gambling instinct unless you have a good sense of probabilities.

Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations.

Agriculture engenders good sense, and good sense of an excellent kind.

It can be no dishonor to learn from others when they speak good sense.

I let go of all desire for the common good, and the good becomes as common as the grass.

"Self-taught, are you?" Julian Castle asked Newt. "Isn't everybody?" Newt inquired. "Very good answer." Castle was respectful.

If you are stuck only at your culture, you will miss thousands of good things in other cultures; and more importantly, you will miss many truths!

People may have too much of a good thing: Full as an egg of wisdom thus I sing.

Good sense about trivialities is better than nonsense about things that matter.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light.

At my age, any day above ground and vertical is a good day.

You can't second-guess ineffability, I always say.

Your natural decisions are the decisions that are going to be good.

I think you have to be much more secure and much less angry to trust the simple. You've got to be in a pretty good place to trust those simple, obvious answers and, most important, to use them.

Cleverness is a burden after that. You are supposed to settle down and be a good person, raise your children, and be good to your friends, which you may not have been back when you were clever.