When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years.
Mark Twain
A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.
Samuel Butler
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.
Galileo Galilei
Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.
Albert Einstein
If you bend the bow too much, it will break.
Norwegian proverbs
Blindest is he who doesn't want to see.
We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.
Leo Tolstoy
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Genius is patience.
Isaac Newton
Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way.
Aristotle
Better know rightly than hope wrongly.
