Josh Billings Quotes

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

The sexiest people are thinkers. Nobody's interested in somebody who's just vain with a hole in their head, talking about the latest thing - there is no latest thing. It's all rubbish.

Learning does not make one learned: there are those who have knowledge and those who have understanding. The first requires memory and the second philosophy

A master was once unmoved by the complaints of his disciples that, though they listened with pleasure to his parables and stories, they were also frustrated for they longed for something deeper. To all their objections he would simply reply: 'You have yet to understand, my friends, that the shortest distance between a human being and truth is a story.'

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

Wisdom is one of the few things in human life that does not diminish with age.

Knowledge is the only elegance.

Deep is the well of truth and long does it take to know what has fallen into its depths.

Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought.

Genius has no youth, but starts with the ripeness of age and old experience.

The wise are not learned, the learned are not wise.

I'm rarely asked to play the smartest man in the room.

Versatility of education can be found in our best poetry, but the depth of mankind should be found in the philosopher.

The world is divided into men who have wit and no religion and men who have religion and no wit.

Remember that the greatest fool in the world may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

All serious conversations gravitate towards philosophy.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom.

The opposite of a correct statement is a false statement. But the opposite of a profound truth may well be another profound truth.

The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

The water in a vessel is sparkling; the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear; the great truth has great silence.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

I'm a little smarter than most.