Quotes about Wisdom

she is giving up a fortune for the sake of a man, and we men have so poor an opinion of each other that we can hardly call a woman wise who does that.

One couldn't carry on life comfortably without a little blindness to the fact that everything has been said better than we can put it ourselves.

Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babbies, said Mrs. Poyser; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

She did not want to deck herself with knowledge—to wear it loose from the nerves and blood that fed her action

But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another—I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more; else who'd go to law, I should like to know?

it had already occurred to him that books were stuff, and that life was stupid. His school studies had not much modified that opinion...

When land is gone and money's spent, Then learning is most excellent.

What was fresh to her mind was worn out to his; and such capacity of thought and feeling as had ever been stimulated in him by the general life of mankind had long shrunk to a sort of dried preparation, a lifeless embalmment of knowledge.

There's Jeremy Taylor's 'Holy Living and Dying' among 'em. I read

Brevity is justified at once to those who readily understand, and to those who will never understand.

People think my life has been tough, but I think has been a wonderful journey. The older you get, the more you realise it's not what happens, but how you deal with it.

Do not despise the fish because they are absolutely unable to speak or to reason, but fear lest you may be even more unreasonable than they by resisting the command of the Creator. Listen to the fish, who through their actions all but utter this word: 'We set out on this long journey for the perpetuation of our species.'