Quotes About Wisdom

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Genius is knowing to stay silent as others demonstrate their ignorance.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

With our thoughts we make the world.

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge.

A bird in the hand is a certainty, but a bird in the bush may sing.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Age is no guarantee of maturity.

As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them.

God made the world round so we would never be able to see too far down the road.

Be discreet in all things, and so render it unnecessary to be mysterious about any.

The more you say, the less people remember.

We have so much time and so little to do. Strike that, reverse it.

If you make a mistake and do not correct it, this is called a mistake.

Read. Read anything. Read the things they say are good for you, and the things they claim are junk. You'll find what you need to find. Just read.

Maturity is the ability to reap without apology and not complain when things don't go well.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

Fear and realisation of ignorance, strong medicines against stupid pride.

I enjoy my wrinkles and regard them as badges of distinction - I've worked hard for them!

It often happens that the quotations constitute the most valuable part of a book.