Quotes about Wisdom

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.

She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Are you thankful for not being young?' 'Yes, sir. If I was young, it would all have to be gone through again, and the end would be a weary way off, don't you see?...

In short, I should have liked to have had the lightest license of a child, and yet be man enough to know its value

I confess I have yet to learn that a lesson of the purest good may not be drawn from the vilest evil.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair,

Every failure teaches a man something, if he will learn; and you are too sensible a man not to learn from this failure.

He is of what is called the old school - a phrase generally meaning any school that seems never to have been young.

Such,' thought Mr. Pickwick, 'are the narrow views of those philosophers who, content with examining the things that lie before them, look not to the truths which are hidden beyond.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age