Wisdom Quotes

"Is it always necessary to accomplish things that are useful?"

"Nothing is as important as it seems at the moment."

"You can't measure the importance of things by their size."

"Things are rarely as they seem on the surface."

"Think it over, think it under."

"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you sometimes find that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."

"Heffalumps are very Suspicious creatures."

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."

"No wise fish would go anywhere without a porpoise."

"I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it."

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there."

"Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens."

"A conclusion is simply the place where you got tired of thinking."

"To be doubtful is to be wise."

"I became educated by refusing to accept what I was told"

"I learned more from my mistakes than from my triumphs"

"My education was a journey from darkness to light"

"One can't believe impossible things"

"That's enough for one day, certainly"

"It is light that makes the day, not the sun."

"You must learn to distinguish between speed and haste."

"Ignorance is no excuse for stupidity."

"Wisdom comes from experience, not just knowledge."

"Now, here, you see, it takes all the running you can do, to keep in the same place."

"What did you do it for?"

"Maybe it's always pepper that makes people hot-tempered."

"You must learn to distinguish between the permanent and the temporary, between the essential and the superficial."

"Words and numbers are not the most important; what matters is understanding them."

"Thinking clearly is much more important than having all the facts."