The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Never pick a fight with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.

Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Thought is the wind and knowledge the sail.

The wise use of your freedom to make your own decisions is crucial to your spiritual growth, now and for eternity.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

More gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.

Anger and intolerance are the enemies of correct understanding.

A witty saying proves nothing.

You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

If we had more hell in the pulpit, we would have less hell in the pew.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Humor must not professedly teach and it must not professedly preach, but it must do both if it would live forever.

The career of a sage is of two kinds: He is either honored by all in the world, Like a flower waving its head, Or else he disappears into the silent forest.

I say there is no darkness but ignorance.

Reason commands us far more imperiously than a master; for in disobeying the one we are unfortunate, and in disobeying the other we are fools.

I think that God gives you your own will and choices. I don’t believe that we’re supposed to drag ourselves through life defeated and not see God’s blessings. But you have to make the right choices and follow that still, small voice within you. Because I think that’s how God leads us.

Don’t swap horses in crossing a stream.

It is in life as it is in ways, the shortest way is commonly the foulest, and surely the fairer way is not much about.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

We’re in the last days, man – I truly, in my heart, believe that. It’s written. I could go on with biblical situations and things my grandma told me. But it’s about being at peace with myself and making good with the people around me.

No man ever prayed heartily without learning something.

We call first truths those we discover after all the others.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

There are only two things. Truth and lies. Truth is indivisible, hence it cannot recognize itself; anyone who wants to recognize it has to be a lie.

There should be a point to movies. Sure, you’re giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom.

A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

Married or single, you sisters possess distinctive capabilities and special intuition you have received as gifts from God. We brethren cannot duplicate your unique influence.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper.

Our care should not be to have lived long as to have lived enough.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight; and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can’t find.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The most interesting information comes from children, for they tell all they know and then stop.

Old age has deformities enough of its own. It should never add to them the deformity of vice.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

If one is master of one thing and understands one thing well, one has at the same time, insight into and understanding of many things.

We are wiser than we know.

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

Many men have been capable of doing a wise thing, more a cunning thing, but very few a generous thing.

The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding.

The wit knows that his place is at the tail of a procession.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.