Famous Quotes About - wisdom

  • A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. ... Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton {view}
  • A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. ... Nelson Mandela {view}
  • A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ... Herb Caen {view}
  • A mistake is simply another way of doing things. ... Katharine Graham {view}
  • A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. ... Robert Frost {view}
  • A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. ... Francis Bacon {view}
  • A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. ... Moliere {view}
  • Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
  • All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. ... George Santayana {view}
  • Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. ... Phil Jackson {view}
  • As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. ... Ben Hogan {view}
  • Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ... Sidonie Gabrielle Colette {view}
  • Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. ... Baltasar Gracian {view}
  • By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ... Confucius {view}
  • Cleverness is not wisdom. ... Euripides {view}
  • Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. ... John Muir {view}
  • Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ... Samuel Taylor Coleridge {view}
  • Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. ... Jim Rohn {view}
  • Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? ... Friedrich Nietzsche {view}
  • Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. ... Joan Rivers {view}
  • Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. ... Dan Rather {view}
  • Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ... Elbert Hubbard {view}
  • Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. ... Thomas B. Macaulay {view}
  • From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. ... Publilius Syrus {view}
  • Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. ... Archimedes {view}
  • Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. ... Henry Ward Beecher {view}
  • He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. ... James Huneker {view}
  • He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ... Mary Wilson Little {view}
  • He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. ... Edgar R. Fiedler {view}
  • Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. ... Thomas Jefferson {view}
  • Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. ... Josh Billings {view}
  • I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ... Lucille Ball {view}
  • If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. ... Lord Salisbury {view}
  • If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. ... Nelson Mandela {view}
  • If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. ... Sidney Lanier {view}
  • If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. ... Michael Jordan {view}
  • Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. ... Johann Wolfgang von Goethe {view}
  • In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ... John Muir {view}
  • In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. ... Lord Chesterfield {view}
  • It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. ... John Steinbeck {view}
  • It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. ... William Ralph Inge {view}
  • It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. ... Francois de La Rochefoucauld {view}
  • It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. ... Harold S. Geneen {view}
  • It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. ... Epictetus {view}
  • It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. ... Richard Whately {view}
  • It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. ... Walter Lippmann {view}
  • It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. ... Henry David Thoreau {view}
  • Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. ... Alfred Lord Tennyson {view}
  • Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ... Josh Billings {view}
  • Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. ... David Herbert Lawrence {view}
  • Memory is the mother of all wisdom. ... Aeschylus {view}
  • Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. ... Ralph Waldo Emerson {view}
  • Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ... Juvenal {view}
  • Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. ... George S. Patton {view}
  • Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. ... Theodore Roosevelt {view}
  • No man was ever wise by chance. ... Lucius Annaeus Seneca {view}
  • Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. ... Marcus Tullius Cicero {view}
  • Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. ... Henry Ford {view}
  • Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. ... Aeschylus {view}
  • Patience is the companion of wisdom. ... Saint Augustine {view}
  • Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. ... Alan Kay {view}
  • Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. ... William Penn {view}
  • Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. ... Albert Einstein {view}
  • Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. ... Tom Hopkins {view}
  • Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. ... W. Clement Stone {view}
  • Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. ... Tobias Smollett {view}
  • The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. ... William James {view}
  • The best way to predict the future is to invent it. ... Alan Kay {view}
  • The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. ... Wilson Mizner {view}
  • The doors of wisdom are never shut. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. ... William Faulkner {view}
  • The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. ... William Gibson {view}
  • The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. ... Daniel J. Boorstin {view}
  • The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. ... Jean Paul {view}
  • The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ... H. L. Mencken {view}
  • The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. ... Socrates {view}
  • The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. ... Jane Wyman {view}
  • The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. ... Khalil Gibran {view}
  • The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. ... Napoleon Bonaparte {view}
  • The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. ... Josh Billings {view}
  • The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. ... Benjamin Disraeli {view}
  • The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. ... Dean Inge {view}
  • The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. ... Oliver Wendell Holmes {view}
  • There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. ... Benjamin Franklin {view}
  • There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. ... Charles Dickens {view}
  • To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. ... Akhenaton {view}
  • To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. ... Bertrand Russell {view}
  • Turn your wounds into wisdom. ... Oprah Winfrey {view}
  • Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. ... Sidney Lanier {view}
  • We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. ... George Bernard Shaw {view}
  • We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ... Henry Ward Beecher {view}
  • When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. ... Sara Teasdale {view}
  • When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. ... Confucius {view}
  • When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. ... John F. Kennedy {view}
  • Who is wise in love, love most, say least. ... Alfred Lord Tennyson {view}
  • Winners never quit and quitters never win. ... Vince Lombardi {view}
  • I do think there must be some kind of interaction between your living life and the life that goes on from here. ... Keanu Reeves {view}