Quotes About Wisdom

The ferocity we show our foes must be tempered by the lesson we hope to teach.

There's a Cuban saying: Bicho malo nunca muere. Loose translation: The good die young but the wicked live forever. It seems to apply to Fidel. I hope it applies to me.

On my tombstone, I really hope that someday they will write: He was true but partial.

I would hope that Kanye [West] would be remembered for being smart and sticking to what he believes.

Ageing is a process of exchanging hope for insight

To conceal ignorance is to increase it. An honest confession of it, however, gives ground for the hope that it will diminish some day or the other.

I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.

How happy he who can still hope to lift himself from this sea of error! What we know not, that we are anxious to possess, and cannot use what we know.

Reading gave me hope.

Generally, I like to appear smart. I don't admit being stupid when there's any hope I'm not.

The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.

If you are wise, You will mingle one thing with the other- Not hoping without doubt; Not doubting without hope.

I hope I continue to learn more. It's a lot to learn.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

Picture anybody growing up so stupid he didn't know that hope is just another phase you'll grow out of.

Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.

Starting over is an acceptance of a past we can't change, an unrelenting conviction that the future can be different, and the stubborn wisdom to use the past to make the future what the past was not.

We mature not by years, but by stories…" Cinderella In Focus:Cindy's Secret

Samuel Johnson said a second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience, " Kirkland said.

The Bible will teach you, correct you, instruct you, and give you hope.

Well, I suggest you sleep on it, " said Aunt Zelda sensibly. "Things always look better in the morning.

We only get either A Lesson or A Miracle.

Hope deceitful as it is serves at least to lead us to the end of life along an agreeable road.

All our theories of improving the world, while we are still asleep, merely intensify the sleep of humanity.