Quotes about Wisdom
Character is never built in a classroom; it is built in the circumstances of life.
— Rick Warren
Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.
— Samuel Johnson
Books without the knowledge of life are useless.
— Samuel Johnson
God Himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until his life is over. Why should you and I?
— Samuel Johnson
Little would be wanting to the happiness of life, if every man could conform to the right as soon as he was shown it.
— Samuel Johnson
Lawyers know life practically. A bookish man should always have them to converse with.
— Samuel Johnson
I enter a most earnest plea that in our hurried and rather bustling life of today we do not lose the hold that our forefathers had on the Bible.
— Theodore Roosevelt
Of the few innocent pleasures left to men past middle life, the jamming of common sense down the throats of fools is perhaps the keenest.
— Thomas Henry Huxley
The bulk of mankind are schoolboys through life.
— Thomas Jefferson
The quality of one's life is directly related to the quality of questions one asks oneself.
— Tony Robbins
Have you not learned the most in your life from those with whom you disagreed - those who saw it differently from you?
— Walt Whitman
A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymuosly in the life of some ex-student's grandchild.
— Wendell Berry