Quotes about Wisdom
Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
— Samuel Johnson
It isn't so astonishing, the number of things that I can remember, as the number of things I can remember that aren't so.
— Mark Twain
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.
— William Saroyan
To live each day as though one's last, never flustered, never apathetic, never attitudinizing-here is perfection of character.
— Marcus Aurelius
When I was preparing for this speech I asked my family for advice. One member replied, "There's a first time for everything, so try to be funny and brief."
— Anonymous
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
— Elbert Hubbard
The second, sober thought of the people is seldom wrong, and always efficient.
— Martin Van Buren
Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
— Anonymous
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
— George Eliot
If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
— Oswald Chambers
Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.
— Cicero