Quotes about Wisdom
It is a good plan to have a book with you in all places and at all times. If you are presently without, hurry without delay to the nearest shop and buy one of mine.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
It's not so hard to be married, I've done it three or four times.
— Stephen Sondheim
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time.
— Henry Ford
If you're too smart it can limit you because you spend so much time thinking that you don't do anything.
— John Malkovich
Prudence is the virtue by which we discern what is proper to do under various circumstances in time and place.
— John Milton
He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.
— Joseph Addison
If we spend enough time with God, He'll either make us strong enough that problems won't bother us, or He'll show us what to do about them.
— Joyce Meyer
The Master knows better than to exhaust His servants and quench the light of Israel. Rest time is not waste time. It is economy to gather fresh strength.
— Charles Spurgeon
Don't waste time asking God to keep you from doing things. Don't do them.
— Oswald Chambers
He who follows reason in all things is both tranquil and active at the same time, and also cheerful and collected.
— Marcus Aurelius
We study history not to be clever in another time, but to be wise always.
— Cicero
If you would beseech a blessing upon yourself, beware! lest without intent you invoke a curse upon a neighbor at the same time.
— Mark Twain