Wisdom Quotes

"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." "Never miss a good chance to shut up." "The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today." "There are more old drunks than there are old doctors so I guess we’d better have another round" "If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough" "An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy" "The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page" "Patience is the companion of wisdom" "The truth is like a lion; you don’t have to defend it. Let it loose; it will defend itself" "We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction" "Familiarity breeds contempt" "It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance" "If you have knowledge, let others light their candles at it" "Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten" "A Bible that’s falling apart usually belongs to someone who isn’t." "Of two evils, choose neither." "The past is a ghost, the future a dream, and all we ever have is now" "Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric." "The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge." "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength"