Quotes about Wisdom
The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching.
- Aristotle
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes.
- Mahatma Gandhi
Those who are in the power of evil habits must conquer them as they can; and conquered they must be, or neither wisdom nor happiness can be attained: but those who are not yet subject to their influence may, by timely caution, preserve their freedom;
- Samuel Johnson
Freedom and order are not incompatible... truth is strength... free discussion is the very life of truth.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to manuever you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.
- CS Lewis
As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.
- Proverbs 31:6
If only you would be altogether silent! For you, that would be wisdom.
- Job 13:5
Save a boyfriend for a rainy dayand another, in case it doesn't rain.
- Mae West
Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you'd never complete your life, would you? You'd never wholly know you.
- Marilyn Monroe
A wise girl knows her limits, a smart girl knows that she has none.
- Marilyn Monroe