Quotes About Wisdom

When I have a daughter I have a lot of good advice for her.

You don't become a good teacher by applying techniques; you don't become a good teacher by using the latest hot methodologies that are being promoted in this or that handbook.

Blessed are they who translate every good thing they know into action - even higher truths shall be revealed to them.

The head raised too high even in good will be struck off too soon.

That good sense which nature affords us is preferable to most of the knowledge that we can acquire.

Shun advice at any price - that's what I call good advice.

The youth say stupid things and they say good things, as we do, as everyone does. But hear them, speak with them, because we must learn from them and they must learn from me, from us.

Giving requires good sense. [Lat., Rest est ingeniosa dare.]

The Seed of Chucky is not a good thing to watch before you get married.

Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.

As a gardener, I wonder if flowers really can't speak or just exercise unfailing good judgment in the matter.

A good man and a wise man may at times be angry with the world, at times grieved for it; but be sure no man was ever discontented with the world who did his duty in it.

When you're old, you are more certain of who you are, and that may be a good thing or a bad thing.

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

The road by precepts is tedious, by example, short and efficacious.

My ma says You can't unspill a stew." "She also says Undoing a wrong is greater than doing a right." "You know, Ma is very good at saying two things at once.

It is one proof of a good education and of true refinement of feeling, to respect antiquity.

Weak men are the worse for the good sense they read in books because it furnisheth them only with more matter to mistake.

The best Qualification of a Prophet is to have a good Memory.

anger cancels good judgement!

Let every man in mankind's frailtyConsider his last day; and let nonePresume on his good fortune until he findLife, at his death, a memory without pain.

The good thing about being old, is you don't have to worry about dying young.

The body, after all, older and wiser than soul, being first created, and, like a good horse, if given its way would go home by the best path and at the right pace.

Val: Why do you go out there? Sandra: Because dead people give such good advice. Val: What advice do they give? Sandra: Just one word- live!