Quotes about Wisdom

I am rather inclined to silence, and whether that be wise or not, it is at least more unusual nowadays to find a man who can hold his tongue than to find one who cannot.

But for this book we could not know right from wrong.

I am very little inclined on any occasion to say anything unless I hope to produce some good by it.

but let us judge not that we be not judged.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away. it's best to let him run.

No human counsel hath devised nor hath any mortal hand worked out these great things. They are the gracious gifts of the Most High God.

I am slow to listen to criminations among friends, and never expose their quarrels on either side…allow bygones to be bygones, and look to the present & future only.

And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!

Human nature will not change. In any future great national trial, compared with the men of this, we shall have as weak and as strong, as silly and as wise, as bad and as good. Let us therefore study the incidents of this, as philosophy to learn wisdom from.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

In the end, it's not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years

A man has not the time to spend half his life in quarrels.