Lucy Maud Montgomery Quotes

Learn what is to be taken seriously and laugh at the rest.

It is the mark of great people to treat trifles as trifles and important matters as important.

The intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, the sensible man hardly anything.

I do not deny that what happened to us is a thing worth laughing at. But it is not worth telling, for not everyone is sufficiently intelligent to be able to see things from the right point of view.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Less judgment than wit is more sail than ballast.

Opinion is the medium between knowledge and ignorance.

I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

Being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

I don't see people. I don't see men and women at all. When I see them, I see... their mothers and fathers. I see how old they are inside. Like when I look at the president, or anybody in a record company, or a store owner, I may see a little boy behind the counter with the face of an old man. And that's who I talk to.

With age comes wisdom.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

There are all different types of people out there who are going to say all kinds of things, online and in real life. The important thing is to know which ones to listen to.

If you don't laugh at all, you've missed the point. If you only laugh, you've missed your chance from illumination.

Intellect is not wisdom.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.

To judge wisely, we must know how things appear to the unwise.

One advantage of getting older is knowing when to worry.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Wise is the man who does not disdain any character and instead, examining him with a searching look, plumbs him to the very main-springs of his being.