Quotes about Wisdom
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
— George Bernard Shaw
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
— George Bernard Shaw
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
— George Bernard Shaw
A life spent in making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent in doing nothing.
— George Bernard Shaw
Youth is wasted on the young.
— George Bernard Shaw
Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
— George Bernard Shaw
You never really learn much from hearing yourself speak.
— George Clooney
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
— George Eliot
Maxims are texts to which we turn in danger or sorrow, and we often find what seems to have been expressly written for our use.
— George Eliot
Perhaps his might be one of the natures where a wise estimate of consequences is fused in the fires of that passionate belief which determines the consequences it believes in.
— George Eliot
How many times have I told you not to believe everything you hear? Seek truth for yourself.
— Isabel Allende