Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists of not exceeding the limit. —Elbert Hubbard More about this quote Tags: wisdom foolishness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer. —Charles Caleb Colton More about this quote Tags: wisdom foolishness answers tests Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Take risks: if you win, you will be happy; if you lose, you will be wise. —Unknown More about this quote Tags: wisdom risk happiness Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The older I grow, the more I listen to people who don't talk much. —Germain G. Glien More about this quote Tags: wisdom silence age listening talking Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
A word to the wise is infuriating. —Hunter S. Thompson More about this quote Tags: wisdom anger Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Are you not ashamed of heaping up the greatest amount of money and honor and reputation, and caring so little about wisdom and truth and the greatest improvement of the soul? —Socrates More about this quote Tags: truth wisdom soul money reputation honor Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Nowadays, the common wisdom is to celebrate diversity — as long as you don't point out that people are different. —Colin Quinn More about this quote Tags: wisdom difference diversity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I had assumed that the earth, the spirit of the earth, noticed exceptions — those who wantonly damage it and those who do not. But the earth is wise. It has given itself into the keeping of all, and all are therefore accountable. —Alice Walker More about this quote Tags: wisdom earth Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The first rule of holes: when you're in one, stop digging. —Molly Ivins More about this quote Tags: action wisdom debt holes Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. —Juvenal More about this quote Tags: wisdom nature Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change. —Confucius More about this quote Tags: wisdom change stupidity Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Patience is the companion of wisdom. —Saint Augustine More about this quote Tags: patience wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers. —Charles W. Eliot More about this quote Tags: friends wisdom books teachers Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The wise man will love; all others will desire. —Afranius More about this quote Tags: love wisdom desire Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. —Edmund Burke More about this quote Tags: wisdom Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email