Quotes about Wisdom

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

The worst thing about new books is that they keep us from reading the old ones.

One cool judgment is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

Aquinas is worth reading. He has stood the test of time. And even where he errs, you can learn more from the errors of a great mind than you can learn from the truths of a small mind. You can see a whole lot farther standing on the shoulders of giants.

It is better to be high-spirited even though one makes more mistakes, than to be narrow-minded and all too prudent.

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.