Quotes about Wisdom

When ignorance gets started it knows no bounds.

The secret to a long marriage is to stay gone.

Books are the money of Literature, but only the counters of Science.

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.

History, by appraising. ..[the students] of the past, will enable them to judge of the future.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement.

But with respect to future debt; would it not be wise and just for that nation to declare in the constitution they are forming that neither the legislature, nor the nation itself can validly contract more debt, than they may pay within their own age, or within the term of 19 years.

We never regret having eaten too little.

A book has but one voice, but it does not instruct everyone alike.

A bad book about the love of God remains a bad book.