Quotes About Wisdom

An error is more useful than truth: truth is a thought suffering from arteriosclerosis.

To be more successful, learn to distinguish between the truly unimportant and the truly important. Eventually you will be considered not only a genius, but a messiah as well.

What you say should not just be truth now, but should be a proven truth tomorrow.

Be the answer not the question.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

The things that make us happy make us wise.

Will raised both eyebrows. 'Well, you learn a new thing everyday,' he said reflectively. 'In your case, that's no exaggeration,' Halt said, completely straight-faced.

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

What is truth? A difficult question; but I have solved it for myself by saying that it is what the 'voice within' tells you.

Things usually make sense in time, and even bad decisions have their own kind of correctness.

There are so few who can grow old with a good grace.

Truth is simple, requiring neither study nor art.

Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

We believe that to govern perfectly it is necessary to avoid governing too much.

The mind is what the mind is fed.

The only thing some people do is get older.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

In this lifetime you can lose everything. Everything passes here. But you don't lose any spiritual knowledge that you have gained in this or any other lifetime. It is inside you.

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

Look not to legislatures and churches for your guidance, nor to any soulless incorporated bodies, but to inspirited or inspired ones.

youth is quick in feeling but weak in judgement.

Advice is like kissing: it costs nothing and is a pleasant thing to do.