Quotes about Wisdom

Examinations, sir, are pure humbug from beginning to end. If a man is a gentleman, he knows quite enough, and if he is not a gentleman, whatever he knows is bad for him.

And the mind of the thoroughly well-informed man is a dreadful thing. It is like a bric-a-brac shop, all monsters and dust, with everything priced above its proper value.

I must confess that most modern mysticism seems to me to be simply a method of imparting useless knowledge in a form that no one can understand

I always pass on good advice.  It is the only thing to do with it.  It is never of any use to oneself. mabel

I wrote when I did not know life. Now that I know life, I have no more to write.

Life is much too important a thing ever to talk seriously about it.

Thou art the same: 'tis I whose wretched soul Takes discontent to be its paramour, And gives its kingdom to the rude control Of what should be its servitor,—for sure Wisdom is somewhere, though the stormy sea Contain it not, and the huge deep answer ''Tis not in me.' To

have a wonderful instinct about things.  They can discover everything except the obvious.

Humanity takes itself too seriously.

We don't grow older we grow riper.

It takes a long time to grow young.

Alanis Morissette: "You live, you learn. You love, you learn. You cry, you learn. You lose, you learn." I think there's something pretty comforting in knowing that even the biggest mistakes I'm inevitably going to make will turn me into who I'll be at thirty.