Quotes about Wisdom

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you.

I only know that if she does not come to value what is true above what is useful it will make little difference whether she lives at all.

My daddy used to tell me not to chew on somethin that was eatin you. Yessir.

If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People

She was old; millions of years old, she felt.

Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--

She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.

Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.

Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.

It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.