Quotes About Wisdom

I am nothing, truth is everything.

no man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention, still less can he afford to take the consequences, including the vitiation of his temper and the loss of self control, yield to larger things to which you show no more than equal rights, and yield to lesser ones though clearly your own, better give your path to a dog, than be bitten by him in contesting for the right, not even killing the dog, will cure the bite

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

He can compress the most words into the smallest ideas of any man I ever met.

Investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

IF you are going to fight, don't let them talk you into negotiating. But, if you are going to negotiate, don't let them talk you into fighting.

He whose wisdom surpasses that of all philosophers, has declared that 'a house divided against itself cannot stand

The hen is the wisest of all the animal creation, because she never cackles until the egg is laid.

Don't believe everything you read on the internet.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

Teach the children so it won't be necessary to teach the adults.

And this, too, shall pass away.

When arguing with a fool, make sure the opponent isn't doing the exact same thing.

A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

When arguing with a fool, first make sure the other person isn't doing the same.

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

Let us do nothing through passion and ill temper.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.