Quotes about Wisdom

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know is a disease.

Sometimes men are still boys, only wearing bigger clothes, until God takes them by the suspenders and gives them a good shake.

To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

There's no such thing is aging, but maturing and knowledge. It's beautiful, I call that beauty.

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected." ( Frauds on the Fairies , 1853)

Do the wise thing and the kind thing too, and make the best of us and not the worst.

Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be.

You are too young to know how the world changes everyday,' said Mrs Creakle, 'and how the people in it pass away. But we all have to learn it, David; some of us when we are young, some of us when we are old, some of us at all times in our lives.

I am not old, but my young way was never the way to age.