Quotes About Wisdom

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

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.

Everything I ever learned, I learned from books.

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

When I learn new things I change my mind, what do you do?

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

January] 26th. [1863] ...and now beware of rashness. Beware of rashness, but with energy and sleepless vigilance go forward and give us victories.

I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do

Don't believe everything you see on the internet

I w ko?cu to nie lata w twoim ?yciu si? licz?. To ?ycie w twoich latach

All I have learned, I have learned from books.

Be sure to place your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

Be guided by reason. Cold Calculated unimpassioned reason

I'd rather be quiet and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.

I can make a General in five minutes, but a good horse is hard to replace.

and in the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years. Abraham Lincoln

You live it forward, but understand it backward.

Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.

Life is like that. You live it forward but understand it backward.

He was teaching me how to die, just as he'd taught me how to live.

The light obtained by setting straw men on fire is not what we mean by illumination.

sometimes crazy uncles—from Samuel Johnson to G. K. Chesterton.