#wisdom

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#box #crime #great #hands #his

Experience is merely the name men gave to their mistakes. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#experience

I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#humor #impatience #patient #wisdom #wise

Nothing, Everything, Anything, Something: If you have nothing, then you have everything, because you have the freedom to do anything, without the fear of losing something. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#everything #fear #freedom #nothing #philosophy

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#forget #forgetting #literature #literature-quotes #old-stories

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life. ↗

— George Arliss

#humility #life #minds #only #our

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. ↗

— e. e. cummings

#better #fate #kisses #than #wisdom

It would indeed be a tragedy if the history of the human race proved to be nothing more than the story of an ape playing with a box of matches on a petrol dump. ↗

— David Ormsby Gore

#nature

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. ↗

— Stephen Vincent Benet

#had #power #thought #wisdom

Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#age #begin #embrace #growth #improve