Quotes about Wisdom
The whole of the Trivium was, in fact, intended to teach the pupil the proper use of the tools of learning.
— Dorothy Sayers
Learning and literature have a way of outlasting the civilisation that made them.
— Dorothy Sayers
Beware that you do not lose the substance by grasping at the shadow.
— Aesop
It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow.
— Aesop
Don't neglect the future in times of plenty, for tomorrow you may need what you wasted today.
— Aesop
Avoid a remedy that is worse than the disease.
— Aesop
If you were foolish enough to sing all summer, you must dance supperless to bed in the winter.
— Aesop
A word in season is most precious.
— Aesop
Oh, you aren't even ripe yet! I don't need any sour grapes.
— Aesop
Every truth has two sides it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.
— Aesop
Don't let your special character and values, the secret that you know and no one else does, the truth - don't let that get swallowed up by the great chewing complacency.
— Aesop
Example is the best precept.
— Aesop