Quotes about Wisdom
If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.
- Thomas Jefferson
Forty is the old age of youth; fifty the youth of old age.
- Victor Hugo
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, - an open and noble temper.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wine had such ill effects on Noah's health that it was all he could do to live 950 years. Show me a total abstainer that ever lived that long.
- Will Rogers
Psychology describes. The Bible prescribes. 'Turn from evil. Let that be the medicine to keep you in health.' Pr 3:7,8.
- Elisabeth Elliot
With age comes the understanding and appreciation of your most important asset, your health.
- Oprah Winfrey
Let us study things that are no more. It is necessary to understand them, if only to avoid them.
- Victor Hugo
As a Christian I take it for granted that human history will some day end; and I am offering Omniscience no advice as to the best date for that consummation.
- CS Lewis
It is with nations as it is with individuals. A book of history is a book of sermons.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
One of the reasons we do history, in fact, is because it acts as a brake, a control, on our otherwise unbridled enthusiasm for our own ideas.
- NT Wright
I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework.
- Lily Tomlin
Here we are, arguably the most intelligent being that's ever walked planet Earth, with this extraordinary brain ... and yet we're destroying the only home we have.
- Jane Goodall