Quotes About Wisdom

It is of no avail to know what is about to happen; for it is a sad thing to be grieved when grief can do no good.

It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.

Yes. But sad's alright. Sad's just apart of everything

After thirty, a man wakes up sad every morning, excepting perhaps five or six, until the day of his death.

It is very wrong for people to feel deeply sad when they lose some money, yet when they waste the precious moments of their lives they do not have the slightest feeling of repentance.

Wisdom of the Ages: "The Pope and Congress" It looks as if confidence in the American voter to exorcise the demons in the Capitol has completely fallen through.

Wisdom of the Ages: "President's Day" One allowed the Federal Reserve and one got lead. One got a city and the other got dead.

Wisdom of the Ages "Unsuccessful Town Slogans" Sequim (WA)- "We put the Dung in Dungeness.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

Nothing in this world is to be feared... only understood.

Little science takes you away from God but more of it takes you to Him.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

Two forces are succesfully influencing the education of a cultivated man: art and science. Both are united in the book.

The Fox knows many things-the hedgehog one big one.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing, to let the mind be a thoroughfare for all thoughts.

Let the mind be enlarged... to the grandeur of the mysteries, and not the mysteries contracted to the narrowness of the mind

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A little science estranges a man from God; a lot of science brings him back.

Hindsight is an exact science.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

I'm sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It's just been too intelligent to come here.