Quotes about Wisdom

And now and then his mind reverted to his treatment by those rude Christ's Hospital Boys, and he said, When I am king, they shall not have bread and shelter only, but also teaching out of books; for a full belly is little worth where the mind is starved and the heart. I will keep this diligently in my remembrance, that this day's lesson be not lost upon me, and my people suffer thereby; for learning softeneth the heart and breedeth gentleness and charity.

I don't see any use in finding out things and clogging up my head with them when I mayn't ever have any occasion to use 'em.

Now let us see what the philosophers say. Note that venerable proverb: Children and fools _always_ speak the truth. The deduction is plain --adults and wise persons _never_ speak it.

To be good is noble. To tell other people how to be good is even nobler and much less trouble.

What gets us into trouble is not what we don't know. It's what we know for sure that just ain't so

It ain't what you don't know that gets you in trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

I have caught a glimpse of the faces of several Moorish women (for they are only human, and will expose their faces for the admiration of a Christian dog when no male Moor is by), and I am full of veneration for the wisdom that leads them to cover up such atrocious ugliness.

The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.

It's not what we don't know that gets us in trouble. It's what we know for sure just ain't so.

To dash a half-truth in the world's eyes is the surest way of blinding it altogether.

Never argue with stupid people, because they will drag you down to their level and then beat you with experience.

Don't let schooling interfere with your education.