“Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.”
Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States
“The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny.”
Of Carroll's essay Nine Wise Words about Letter-Writing; p. 18
M. N. Cohen & E. Wakeling, Lewis Carroll and his Illustrators (2003)
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "The nine Wise Words are full of wisdom, besides being decidedly funny." by John Tenniel?
John Tenniel5
British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoo… 1820–1914Related quotes
Muhammad (570–632) Arabian religious leader and the founder of Islam
Sahih Muslim, Book 001, Number 0142
Sunni Hadith
Context: It is narrated on the authority of 'Abdullah b. Umar that the Messenger of Allah observed: O womenfolk, you should give charity and ask much forgiveness for I saw you in bulk amongst the dwellers of Hell. A wise lady among them said: Why is it, Messenger of Allah, that our folk is in bulk in Hell? Upon this the Holy Prophet observed: You curse too much and are ungrateful to your spouses. I have seen none lacking in common sense and failing in religion but (at the same time) robbing the wisdom of the wise, besides you. Upon this the woman remarked: What is wrong with our common sense and with religion? He (the Holy Prophet) observed: Your lack of common sense (can be well judged from the fact) that the evidence of two women is equal to one man, that is a proof of the lack of common sense, and you spend some nights (and days) in which you do not offer prayer and in the month of Ramadan (during the days) you do not observe fast, that is a failing in religion. This hadith has been narrated on the authority of Abu Tahir with this chain of transmitters.
Aldous Huxley book Time Must Have a Stop
Source: Time Must Have a Stop (1944), Chapter XXX, Character Bruno Rontini
Francis Marion Crawford (1854–1909) Novelist, short story writer, essayist (1854-1909)
The Novel: What It Is (1893)
“Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Hermann Hesse (1877–1962) German writer
Siddhartha (1922)
Context: Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
Dale Dauten (1950) American writer
Cited in: Colleen Zuck etal. (2002) Daily Word for Families, p. 167
“Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.”
Muhammad Ali (1942–2016) African American boxer, philanthropist and activist
“The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson book Experience
Experience
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)