Quotes About Wisdom

I received many years of good advice from my father - how to live, how to play, how to be a gentleman.

Be good, sweet maid, and don't forget that this involves being as clever as you can.

Good things are not necessarily God things.

Because God loves us, he gives us the freedom to make choices. That's good news if we choose wisely. But it also gives us the capacity to sin.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

Good taste comes more from the judgment than from the mind.

Sometimes there is equal or more ability in knowing how to use good advice than there is in giving it.

It is sometimes a point of as much cleverness to know to make good use of advice from others as to be able give good advice to oneself.

If you wish to be good "Pantagruelists" (which is to say, live in peace, joy, health, and always dining well), never put too much faith in people who look out through a hole.

Just as one can make a lot of garlands from a heap of flowers, so man, subject to birth and death as he is, should make himself a lot of good karma.

A sure sign of a good book is that you like it more the older you get.

Better a good decision quickly than the best decision too late.

We cannot freely and wisely choose the right way for ourselves unless we know both good and evil.

What the world wants iz [sic] good examples, not so mutch advice; advice may be wrong, but examples prove themselves.

I want to be one of those people, be they writers, poets, musicians, who leaves clues for the next generation. The really good people leave clues that help feed the human race. That's my aspiration.

It is much more intelligent, more practical, to be good rather than evil.

Good advice is like a proverb: the meaning depends on the interpretation.

At the end of the day, if you're old enough, you're good enough.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.

It's a good thing I learned some humility and perspective as I got older.

Truth is the beginning of every good to the gods, and of every good to man.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

I don't think people are fools, and I think they deserve a good attitude and smart entertainment.