Book of Proverbs Quotes

Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul.

You simply don't get to be wise, mature, etc., unless you've been a raving cannibal for thirty years or so.

None of us was born knowing or wise; but men become wise by consideration, observation, experience.

Men may be born free; they cannot be born wise; and it is the duty of the university to make the free wise.

If we walk with the wise, we will grow wise.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

The days that make us happy make us wise

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise.

[T]he House of Maidens was for little girls whose whole duty in life was to spill things, break things, and forget things . . . until they had spilled, broken, and forgotten everything they could, and thus made room in their lives for a little wisdom.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

If man could write his own fate, he would have designed his journey to be without obstacles. Yet all obstacles come with valuable lessons designed just for you and only you. Suffering is imposed on us time and again so that one day we would become brave wise masters. That is, a strong being who is confidently aware of their intended direction in life, and fearlessly adding value to the world and their future.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

For there is assuredly nothing dearer to a man than wisdom, and though age takes away all else, it undoubtedly brings us that.

I get my inspiration from everyday life, things people my age are going through in life, good and bad experiences.

No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.

Problems are to the mind what exercise is to the muscles, they toughen and make strong.

The process of growing up is to be valued for what we gain, not for what we lose.

Half my life is in book's written pages. Live and learn from fools and from sages.

We all suffer. If a man's wise, he learns from it.

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

Please, not again what you studied, how long you spent at it, how many books you wrote, what people thought of you - but: what did you learn?

All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from their mistakes.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.