Quotes About Wisdom

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations . . . The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.

I think "No comment" is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again. I got it from Sumner Welles.

Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.

We occasionally stumble over the truth but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

It is a mistake to look too far ahead. Only one link of the chain of destiny can be handled at a time.

Men occasionally stumble on the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

Too often the strong silent man is silent because he does not know what to say, and is reputed strong only because he has remained silent.

I believe yours is the only wisdom, Demelza.

You might not be the smartest feller in town, but you've got more sense than most people.

Maybe I am a idiot, but at least I ain't stupid

But as Lindbergh's friend former president Herbert Hoover instructed, "When you had been in politics long enough, you learned not to say things just because they are true."21

Mo?e jestem idiota, ale nie jestem g?upi.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Personally, I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught.

The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances.

When we Indians kill meat, we eat it all up.... When we build houses, we make little holes. When we burn grass for grasshoppers, we don't ruin things. We shake down acorns and pinenuts. We don't chop down the trees.

Laughter abounds in the mouths of fools.

I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom.