Quotes About Wisdom

Being nice doesn't make you stupid. It makes you feel good because you know you are gracious enough to forgive and smart enough to realize how distasteful some people can be.

For the company of the great is good company as Shakespeare understood it, as Plutarch understood it. The past remains the source from which example and precept can still be drawn.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.

Keep your money in your pocket. Or bet it on a good horse.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

The core of literature is the idea of tragedy... You don't really learn much from the good things that happen to you.

And well historically it's never been a good thing to compare yourself to biblical characters.

Neophyte, n. There are millions upon millions of people who have been through this before-- why is it that no one can give my good advice?

[A]s you partake of the world's bill of fare, that's darned good advice to follow. Do a lot of spitting out the hot air. And be careful what you swallow.

A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.

Fortunately I have never learned to take the good advice I give myself nor the counsel of my fears.

Quitters have the good sense to admit their mistakes, cut their losses, and move on.

A fool has not material enough to be good. [Fr., Un sot n'a pas assez d'etoffe pour etre bon.]

How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

It is a sure evidence of a good book if it pleases us more and more as we grow older.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

Good enough to tweet, not to say.

One piece of good sense would be more memorable than a monument as high as the moon.

The secret of all good writing is sound judgment.

Be grateful for every thing good and bad that comes to you. For all things have contributed to your advancement.

But there are some situations of the human mind in which good sense has very little power.

Sandler's always good. Tom Hanks gave me some good advice.

I've made my share of mistakes, but had the good fortune to have them not be so public.

Accepting good advice means nothing other than to strengthen one's own ability.