Favorite Quotations
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Wisdom, 2
Nietzsche
It’s taken me all my life to understand that It is not necessary to understand everything. ~ Rene Coty To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the ration knowledge of temporal things. ~ St. Augustine Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ~ George Santayana Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ~ Alfred Tennyson No one is ever old enough to know better. ~ Holbrook Jackson A short saying oft contains much wisdom. ~ Sophocles The dumbest people I know are those who know it all. ~ Malcolm Forbes It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite. ~ Sam Levenson Cleverness is not wisdom. ~ Euripides What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing. ~ Ibo Proverb
"Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time." ~ Theodore Roosevelt