723 quotes found
“It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”
“A word to the wise is infuriating.”
“The wise only possess ideas the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.”
“Learning passes for wisdom among those who want both.”
“It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.”
“A wise man sees as much as he ought not as much as he can.”
“A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.”
“Almost every wise saying has an opposite one no less wise to balance it.”
“All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.”
“It's taken me all my life to understand that it is not necessary to understand everything.”
“What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is for the most part incommunicable.”
“Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.”
“Deliberate often - decide once.”
“Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.”
“Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.”
“In much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
“The wise have a solid sense of silence and the ability to keep a storehouse of secrets. Their capacity and character are respected.”
“My father used to say: Son if you are not bright you've got to be methodical (defusing argument when challenged and proved right)”
“Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.”
“Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.”
