Bores Quote by Ouida

Epigrams delight us into wisdom.

— Michael R. Burch

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for…

— Marcel Proust

And among academicians, and among spirits. I found folly everywhere, but there were grains of wisdom in every stream of it. No doubt there…

— Philip Pullman

“I aspire to wisdom, my lady. I do not believe I possess it, not yet. But my lord Ptolemy Solon holds that happiness is…

— Jacqueline Carey

If it is wisdom you're after, you're going to spend a lot of time on your ass reading.

— Charlie Munger

“Wisdom accumulates in the cracks of personal experience and the crevices of bad judgments.”

— Will Craig, Living the Hero's Journey

“Take as much care with words expressing your sentiments as you will crafting your doctoral dissertation.”

— Marisha Pessl

My books have three W's on them, which are "words," "wisdom," and "wonder." Words inevitably lead to wisdom, and wisdom inevitably leads to wonder…

— Julie Andrews

“There are times when wisdom cannot be found in the chambers of parliament or the halls of academia but at the unpretentious setting of…

— Anonymous

“Sometimes I think that wisdoms slip from my mind like drool from the lips of an idiot... Where's all this stuff coming from? Is…

— Vera Nazarian

Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In history, a great volume is unrolled for our instruction, drawing the materials of future wisdom from the past errors and infirmities of mankind.

— Edmund Burke