Quotes about Wisdom
A wise man never refuses anything to necessity.
— Publilius Syrus
One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be.
— Oscar Wilde
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
— Anonymous
The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Wrinkles - the service stripes of life.
— Anonymous
(A country where) the young are always ready to give to those who are older than themselves the full benefits of their inexperience.
— Oscar Wilde
Combine common sense and the Golden Rule, and you will have very little bad luck.
— Anonymous
The telephone book is full of facts but it doesn't contain a single idea.
— Mortimer Adler
As good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
— John Milton
Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, refrains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
— George Eliot
If your lips would keep from slips five things observe with care: To whom you speak, of whom you speak, And how, and when, and where.
— Anonymous
Knowledge cannot defile, nor consequently the books, if the will and conscience be not defiled.
— John Milton