Quotes about Wisdom

Once said that his political adversary "dived down deeper into the sea of knowledge and came up drier than any other man he knew.

Let us therefore study the incidents in this as philosophy to learn wisdom from and none of them as wrongs to be avenged....

The larger the island of knowledge the longer the shore line of wonder. Wonder rather than doubt is the root of knowledge.

A capacity, and taste, for reading gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others.

And in the end it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.

Foolish people spend time and money poring over horoscopes and consulting so-called psychics trying to see the dark unknown. How much better to walk through life holding the hand of One who knows the way and cares for us!

An Ass put on a Lion's skin and went About the foreset with much merriment, Scaring the foolish beasts by brooks and rocks, Till at last he tried to scare the Fox. But Reynard, hearing from beneath the mane That Raucous voice so petulant and vain, Remarked. O' Ass, I too would run away, But that I know your old familiar bray'. That's just the way with asses, just the way.

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.

I don't think it's much use your looking for the brains: a creature who twice walked into a lions den can't have got any.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

Train up a child in the way he should go; and when he is old he will not depart therefrom.