Quotes About Wisdom

The mistakes of others are good teachers.

The nearer the minster the later to mass.

The praise of fools is censure in disguise.

The wise makes proverbs, and fools repeat them.

The world is in the hands of fools.

Theory dominates practice.

There are three too much and three too little that can bring a fool down: too much spending and too little money; too much talking and too little knowledge; and too much boasting and too little earnings.

There is no wise response to a foolish remark.

When a cock invites a cockroach for a birthday party, he has prepared dinner for himself.

When a deceiving man tells you to climb a tree, tell him to climb it first. If he finds a comfortable spot you can follow him.

When a king has good counselors, his reign is peaceful.

When a man is not a lover in his twenties, not strong in his thirties, not rich in his forties and not wise in his fifties he will never be so.

You are sure to marry a woman either beautiful or ugly; If ugly she will be a punishment; if beautiful, you will share her with others. Therefore do not marry.

A proverb is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on COMMON SENSE or experience.

Fools have no interest in understanding; they only want to air their own opinions.

FOOLISHNESS IS NOT AN ABUSE BUT A QUALIFICATION. Pst Sam Onitiri

Do not be arrogant because of your knowledge, but confer with the ignorant man as with the learned…. Good speech is more hidden than malachite, yet it is found in the possession of women slaves at the millstones.

Teach him what has been said in the past; then he will set a good example to the children of the magistrates, and judgment and all exactitude shall enter into him. Speak to him, for there is none born wise.

But you know, there's a difference between thinking something and feeling something. I don't know whether I ever thought an answer like that was true before. I might have. But I never felt it. And I guess what that means is that if you haven't felt something, you don't know it.' 'That reminds me of something a poet called Kabir said once,' I said.... 'He said, 'Nothing that hasn't been experienced is true.

Be not the first one to quarrel, nor the last to make up

Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom.

Frugality is misery in disguise.

Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage.

It is only the ignorant who despise education.