Quotes about Wisdom
Frugality may be termed the daughter of Prudence, the sister of Temperance, and the parent of Liberty.
— Samuel Johnson
It is alike your interest and mine and all men's, however long we have dwelt in lies, to live in truth.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Truth is the breath of life to human society. It is the food of the immortal spirit. Yet a single word of it may kill a man as suddenly as a drop of prussic acid.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
There has been war since the beginning of time and we are no smarter than the people that have gone before us. There is apt to be some more war.
— Will Rogers
This would be a great time in the world for some man to come along that knew something.
— Will Rogers
Ah, well, I am a great and sublime fool. But then I am God's fool, and all His work must be contemplated with respect.
— Mark Twain
25th Anniversary. — Love seems the swiftest but is the slowest of all growths. No man and woman really know what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century.
— Mark Twain
The beauty of a woman grows with the passing years.
— Audrey Hepburn
Nothing ever goes away until it teaches us what we need to know.
— Pema Chodron
Trifles make the sum of human things, and half our misery from our foibles springs.
— Hannah More
The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
— Hannah Whitall Smith
Such a person can see without "pre-judice", that is, without judging in advance; he will judge only on the basis of what he has really seen for himself.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar