Wisdom cannot be stolen - it can only be shared.
Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.
Those who possess wisdom cannot just ladle it out to every wantwit and jackanapes who comes along and asks for it. A person must be prepared to receive wisdom, or else it will do him more harm than good. Moreover, a lout thrashing about in the clear waters of wisdom will dirty those waters for everyone else.
Who knoweth if to die be but to live, and that called life by mortals be but death?
Let discernment be your trustee, and mistakes your teacher.
If Peter Pan had been real, he would've gone mad and killed everyone in Neverland.
But I give you my word, in the entire book there is nothing that cannot be said aloud in mixed company. And there is, also, nothing that makes you a bit the wiser. I wonder--oh, what will you think of me--if those two statements do not verge upon the synonymous.
Wisdom does not make me full. It fills me with hunger.
Constitutional democracy, you see, is no romantic notion. It's our defense against ourselves, the one foe who might defeat us.
Since living is believing, no one can be completely lacking in faith.
The life we’re given is on a thread, so wear it well.
Tell the truth. Sing with passion. Work with laughter. Love with heart. 'Cause that's all that matters in the end.
Fear is a state of nervousness only fit for children
A WORD TO THE WISE Let the world pass in its time-ridden race; never get caught in its snare. Remember, the only acceptable case for being in any particular place is having no business there.
Wisdom mitigates the risk of being honest.
He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.
Oh dear Sunday, I am so happy that I want your entire wisdom at my dinner table.
You have to be ill if you want to get better.
Not what happens to you But how you accept it Is of paramount importance.
Darling, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up in two words? Wait and hope.
