Quotes About Wisdom

As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'

Read (this book), smile, enjoy, and if you happen to learn something along the way, don't get upset.

I learned to smile by going through hell. Now I know what hell is and you don't. I can't tell you how it is, cause you can't do it with words.

A gentleman will walk but never run.. it takes a man to suffer ignorance and smile.. be yourself no matter what they say.

Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;When thou art old there's grief enough for thee.

I had come in time to learn that it was a mistake to smile a friendly smile when somebody made a fool of me.

Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

Auguries of innocence "The emmet's inch and eagle's mile Make lame philosophy to smile. He who doubts from what he sees Will ne'er believe, do what you please.

The God knows when to smile.

Nay, Sir, it was not the WINE that made your head ache, but the SENSE that I put into it' 'What, Sir! will sense make the head ache?' 'Yes, Sir, (with a smile,) when it is not used to it.

Someday you will look back on all the awful stuff that's happening to you, and fondly smile. Doesn't say much about the future, does it?

He gave me a small, secretive smile, a smile that said he knew many things but couldn't share them all at once.

One of the perils of life is to be asked a question which the wisest of them cannot answer. But a smile does the job.

It's getting more difficult to be wise, " he says, laughing into my ear.I smile at him. "I think that's how it'ssupposed to be.

Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?

To reap a return in ten years, plant trees. To reap a return in 100, cultivate the people.

Nothing under the sun is greater than education. By educating one person and sending him into the society of his generation, we make a contribution extending a hundred generations to come.

Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

Freedom can exist only in the society of knowledge. Without learning, men are incapable of knowing their rights.

which is better - to be born stupid into an intelligent society or intelligent into an insane one?

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.

When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We don't honor them enough, we don't pay them enough.

Society is always taken by surprise at any new example of common sense.