Quotes About Wisdom

Most of the successful people I've known are the ones who do more listening than talking.

Humility is the solid foundation of all virtues.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Stop thinking, and end your problems. What difference between yes and no? What difference between success and failure? Must you value what others value, avoid what others avoid? How ridiculous!

Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.

I've had a lot of success; I've had failures, so I learn from the failure.

Those who have failed miserably are often the first to see God's formula for success.

Learn from the negative as well as the positive, from the failures as well as the successes.

Our bravest and best lessons are not learned through success, but through misadventure.

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself.

I have long since abandoned the notion that higher education is essential to either success or happiness. Hothouses of learning do not always grow anything edible.

The past sharpens perspective, warns against pitfalls, and helps to point the way.

Your success in investing will depend in part on your character and guts, and in part on your ability to realize at the height of ebullience and the depth of despair alike that this too shall pass.

The successful person places more attention on doing the right thing rather than doing things right.

There are Two Secrets to Success: 1. Don't tell ANYONE Everything you know 2.If you have to ask what Jazz is, you'll never know.

You don't need to be a rocket scientist. Investing is not a game where the guy with the 160 IQ beats the guy with 130 IQ.

The awareness of the ambiguity of one's highest achievements, as well as one's deepest failures is a definite symptom of maturity.

Proper preparation is the key to our success. Our acts can be no wiser than our thoughts. Our thinking can be no wiser than our understanding.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

One of the things young people always ask me about is what is the secret to success. The secret is there is no secret. It's the basics. Blocking and tackling.

The goose that lays the golden eggs likes to lay where there are eggs already.

Instruction does not prevent wasted time or mistakes; and mistakes themselves are often the best teachers of all.

I've learned that mistakes can often be as good a teacher as success.