Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. Votes: 1
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. Votes: 1
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. Votes: 1
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. Votes: 1
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. Votes: 1
Normally street children are shown in terms of the tragedy of their lives - which is true - but there's also another dimension: their wisdom, dignity and enormous capacity for survival. Votes: 1
It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. Votes: 1
I knew that I had it tough compared to children around me. But I felt like I needed it. I think I had the wisdom as a child to know that it would help me later on. Votes: 1
What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. Votes: 1
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. Votes: 1
Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. Votes: 1
If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. Votes: 1
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. Votes: 1
What I like doing most is making children laugh. Votes: 1
My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad. Votes: 1
Great children's books are wisdom dipped in words and art. Votes: 0
Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child's exuberance. Votes: 0
There are people whom even children's literature would corrupt. They read with particular enjoyment the piquant passages in the Psalter and in the Wisdom of Solomon. Votes: 0
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Votes: 8 Aristotle