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Quotes About Wisdom

I hate books; they only teach people to talk about what they don't understand.
~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Nothing fails like success because we don't learn from it. We learn only from failure.
~ Kenneth E. Boulding
The success of any stand-up act comes out of life experience.
~ Howie Mandel
Getting a mentor is the shortcut to success.
~ Bo Sanchez
I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.
~ Jean Kerr
It is wise to remember that too much success in the stock market is in itself an excellent warning.
~ Gerald M. Loeb
Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.
~ Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook
How can you truly know what success is, if you've never experienced failure?
~ Chad Pennington
Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to know when to forego an advantage.
~ Benjamin Disraeli
There is a direct correlation between the books you read and the success you achieve.
~ David Cottrell
We all stand on the shoulders of the past generation.
~ John C. Maxwell
To have grown wise and kind is real success.
~ Tristan Bernard
If we say a little it is easy to add, but having said too much it is hard to withdraw and never can it be done so quickly as to hinder the harm of our success.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Atlantean medicine was evolved to heal, since healing is oneness.
~ Frederick Lenz
I'd rather learn how to prevent failure than how to gain success, because for what is success other than a state of mind?
~ Og Mandino
Why aren't more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Great books aren't within everybody's reach.
~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Never will man penetrate deeper into error than when he is continuing on a road which has led him to great success
~ Friedrich August von Hayek
It was revealed to me many years ago with conclusive certainty that I was a fool and that I had always been a fool. Since then I have been as happy as any man has a right to be.
~ Alastair Sim
I have found success is ultimately realized by people who make more right choices . . . and recover quickly from their bad choices.
~ David Cottrell
The worst use that can be made of success is to boast of it.
~ Arthur Helps
The one sure way to success is to know everything you can about what you do.
~ Donald Trump
The daily lessons have opened my mind to higher possibilities and given me a newfound personal wisdom. Success is now the only option, it's what I now expect for myself.
~ Karyn White
Success is all very well as long as you don't inhale.
~ Leonard Bernstein
If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.
~ Denzel Washington