Words of Wisdom Sayings & Quotes
These words of wisdom sayings, quotes and quotations are from our famous and inspiring Just-Quotes collection.There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise. - Sophocles
Mother's words of wisdom: Answer me! Don't talk with food in your mouth! - Erma Bombeck
And thus, in my folly, afore this time often I wondered why, by the great foreseeing wisdom of God, the beginning of sin was not letted; for then, me thought, all should have been well. But Jesus, who in this Vision informed me of all that is needful to me, answered by this word and said, Sin is behovable, but all shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well. - Juliana of Norwich
All human wisdom is summed up in two words, wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas
Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism. - Aldous Huxley
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. - Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. - Archibald MacLeish
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use. - Antoine De Saint-Exupery