Quotes About Wisdom

For I have been often wrong, and whilst the training of the Church has taught me to admit it, somehow I have never learnt not to be wrong in the first place.

In all his battles, Haig never seems to have appreciated that there came a time when he had obtained or achieved all he could hope for and that to press on would either throw away his success to date or result in terrible losses.

By the turn of the century, all-out attacks by hosts of valiant French infantry, rather on the style employed by the Imperial Guard at Waterloo, were the received wisdom in French military circles, and would remain so until the losses of the Great War killed off its adherents and a million or so brave young men.

Physical bravery is essential in second lieutenants but dangerous in general officers. They should learn caution and judgement as they rise through the ranks; a general needs moral courage, not least the courage to make a hard decision and stick to it under pressure from his superiors and events.

life doesn't always give you what you ask for, but it always gives you what you need.

There's a cure for aging that no one talks about. It's called learning.

Books simply help you to see what is already within your self. That's what enlightenment is all about.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it

Read regularly. Reading for thirty minutes a day will do wonders for you.

quality of your thinking determines the quality of your life.

Reading a book by someone you respect allows some of their brilliance to rub off on you.

A mistake is only a mistake if you make it twice.

He who asks may be a fool for five minutes. He who doesn't is a fool for a lifetime

The best antidote for fear is knowledge.

Read the right books. Learn how those who have preceded you have handled the challenges you are currently facing.

Cut back on your rent or cut back on what you spend on food but never worry about investing money in a good book.

if you have failed more than others, there is a very good chance you are living more completely than others.

We walk this planet for such a short time. In the overall scheme of things, our lives are mere blips on the canvas of eternity. So have the wisdom to enjoy the journey and savor the process.

The days come and go like muffled and veiled figures sent from a distant friendly party but they say nothing. And if we do not use the gifts they bring, they carry them

Sre?a pride z dobro presojo, dobra presoja pride z izkušnjami in izkušnje pridejo s slabo presojo.

Happiness comes through good judgment, good judgment comes through experience, and experience comes through bad judgment.' But

If you eat three times a day you'll be fed. But if you read three times a day you'll be wise.

But your past is a place to be learned from, not a home to be lived in.

I'm getting why Steve Jobs didn't give his kids the very things he sold to the world. He understood how addictive they could be, if improperly used. And how they could make us less human and less alive.