Wisdom Quotes

"You know how they say that 'youth is wasted on the young'? Well, I say don't let the wisdom of age be wasted on you."

- Ted Lasso

"The hard soil and four months of snow make the inhabitants of the northern temperate zone wiser and abler than his fellow who enjoys the fixed smile of the tropics."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Year’s end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us."

- Hal Borland

"In the book of life, the answers aren’t in the back."

- Charles M. Schulz

"If evolution really works, how come mothers only have two hands?"

- Milton Berle

"A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time—proof that humans can work magic."

- Carl Sagan

"To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries."

- A.C. Grayling

"To hunt is to understand the delicate balance of life and death and our role within it."

- Fred Bear

"The sea is the same as it has been since before men ever went on it in boats."

- Ernest Hemingway

"Fishing seems to be the great occasion when all manner of contradictions reconcile themselves."

- Iris Murdoch

"In silence and patience, the wisdom of fishing unfolds."

- Julian Barnes

"A wise fisherman always casts his net on both sides of the boat."

- African Proverb

"Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement."

- John Gierach

"Never leave fish to find fish."

- Moses, 1200BC

"Every hunter carries not just a quiver or a gun, but a legacy of ancient traditions."

- Anonymous

"A true hunter’s greatest trophy lies not in the game he catches but in the lessons learned and the respect earned."

- Anonymous

"In the stillness of the hunt, one discovers the rhythm of nature and the pulse of life."

- Anonymous

"Men and fish are alike. They both get into trouble when they open their mouths."

"A fish and a guest smell after three days."

"The fish always sees the bait, never the hook."

"Fishermen own the fish they catch, but they do not own the ocean."

"Where the water is too clear, there are no fish."

"The fish that is being chased does not tire."

"You can't catch trout with dry breeches."

"Even a fish wouldn't get into trouble if it kept its mouth shut."

"When the river is silent, the fish has swum to the sea."

"The fish sees the worm, not the hook; a man sees not the danger, only the profit."

"The fish trap exists because of the fish. Once you've gotten the fish you can forget the trap."

"A father is neither an anchor to hold us back nor a sail to take us there, but a guiding light whose love shows us the way."

"The greatest legacy a father can leave his children is a sense of purpose and courage."