Quotes about Wisdom

The more learned a man is the less consideration he has for another man's belief.

A liberal is a man who wants to use his own ideas on things in preference to generations who, he knows, know more than he does.

Talk, talk, talk: the utter and heartbreaking stupidity of words.

The greatest ideas are the simplest.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity is a greater.

One would imagine that books were, like women, the worse for being old that they open their leaves more cordially that the spirit of enjoyment wears out with the spirit of novelty and that after a certain age, it is high time to put them on the s.

Whatever excites the spirit of contradiction is capable of producing the last effects of heroism; which is only the highest pitch of obstinacy, in a good or bad cause, in wisdom or folly.

Prosperity is a great teacher; adversity a greater.

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world.

The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure very much.

ìCommon sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

Experience has ways of boiling over, and making us correct our present formulas