"We need an education in the obvious more than investigation of the obscure." -Oliver Wendell Holmes
"The great end of education is, to discipline rather than to furnish the mind; to train it to the use of its own powers, rather than fill it with the accumulations of others." -Tyron Edwards
"The two basic processes of education are knowing and valuing." -Robert J. Havighurst
"Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school." -Albert Einstein
"Beauty I have learned from the ugly, charity from the unkind, and peace from the turmoil of the world." -Frederick Ward Kates
"If you have wit, use it to please and not to hurt; you may shine like the sun in the temperate zones without scorching." -Lord Chesterfield
"We judge of man's wisdom by his hope." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The belief that youth is the happiest time of life is founded on a fallacy. The happiest person is the person who things the most interesting thoughts and we grow happier as we grow older." -William Lyon Phelps
"A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject." -Winston Churchill
"It is well for the hear tot be naive and for the mind not to be." -Anatole France
"No true manhood can be trained by a merely intellectual process. You cannot train men by the intellect alone; you must train them by the heart." -Joseph Parker
"Know thyself? If I knew myself, I'd run away." -Goethe
"The mental disease of the present generation is the impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition to rely wholly upon unassisted genius and natural sagacity." -Johnson
"Experience has convinced me that there is a thousand times more goodness, wisdom and love in the world than men imagine." -Gehles
"Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it." -T. T. Munger
"Knowledge is the eye of desire and can become the pilot of the soul." -Will Durant
"Intellect and industry are never incompatible. There is more wisdom, and will be more benefit, in combining them than scholars like to believe, or than the common world imagine; life has enough time for both, and its happiness will be increased by they union." -S. Turner
"Cleverness is not wisdom." -Euripides
"It takes a clever man to turn cynic and a wise man to be clever enough not to." -Fannie Hurst
"He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense." -Plautus
"The plainest sign of wisdom is continual cheerfulness, her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene." -Michel de Montaigne
"Experience takes dreadfully high school-wages, but he teaches like no other." -Thomas Carlyle
"It takes a lot of time to get experience, and once you have it you ought to go on using it." -Benjamin M. Duggar
"The rules which experience suggests are better than those which theorists elaborate in their libraries." -Richard Storrs
"Experience is the universal mother of sciences." -Miguel de Cervantes
"It is foolish to try to live on past experience. It is very dangerous, if not a fatal habit, to judge ourselves to be safe because of something that we felt or did twenty years ago." -Charles Spurgeon
"The years teach much which the days never know." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
"He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today." -Tryon Edwards
"Learn from the mistakes of others- you can't live long enough to make them all yourself." -Martin Vanbee
"Time ripens all things; no man is born wise." -Miguel de Cervantes
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past." -Patrick Henry
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him." -Aldous Huxley
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." -George Bernard Shaw
"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough." -William Blake
"I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday." -Abraham Lincoln
"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages may be preserved by quotation." -Benjamin Disraeli
"There is no merit where there is no trial; and till experience stamps the mark of strength, cowards may pass for heroes and faith for falsehood." -Aaron Hill
"A little experience often upsets a lot of theory." -Cadman
"To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illuminate only the track it has passed." -Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than wisdom acquired." -Joseph Roux
"Experience is the child of thought, and thought is the child of action. We cannot learn men from books." -Benjamin Disraeli
"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is the only opportunity more intelligently to begin again." -Henry Ford
"Many a man fails to become a thinker for the sole reason that his memory is too good." -Friedrich W. Nietzche
"There is no such thing as an inevitable war. If war comes, it will be from failure of human wisdom." -Bonar Law
"We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before." -James Truslow Adams
