Quotes about Wisdom

We should all start to live before we get too old.

Reading is a basic tool in the living of a good life.

We called him Tortoise because he taught us.

I've seen that phenomenally successful people believe they can learn something from everybody. I call them 'mavericks with mentors.' Richard Branson, for instance, is a total maverick but he surrounds himself with incredibly successful, smart people and he listens to them.

Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't.

As the soil, however rich it may be, cannot be productive without cultivation, so the mind without culture can never produce good fruit.

Thrift comes too late when you find it at the bottom of your purse.

Life, if well lived, is long enough.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones at hand do more toward a happy life than whole volumes that we know not where to find.

Speech is the mirror of the mind.

The mind is slow to unlearn what it learnt early.

To be always fortunate, and to pass through life with a soul that has never known sorrow, is to be ignorant of one half of nature.