Quotes about Wisdom
Adam was the only man who, when he said a good thing, knew that nobody had said it before him.
— Mark Twain
Truth has no beginning.
— Mary Baker Eddy
Then is then. Now is now. We must grow to learn the difference.
— Anonymous
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
— St. Isidore of Seville
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
A man who both spends and saves money is the happiest man, because he has both enjoyments.
— Samuel Johnson
As the Spanish proverb says, 'He who would bring home the wealth of the Indies, must carry the wealth of the Indies with him.' So it is with traveling. A man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge.
— Samuel Johnson
Our Lord commonly giveth Riches to such gross asses, to whom he affordeth nothing else that is good.
— Martin Luther
A wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interests than it is theirs to find his weak point.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
I am not yet so lost in lexicography, as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.
— Samuel Johnson
No man better knows what good is than he who has endured evil.
— Anonymous