Quotes About Wisdom

Price is what you pay. Value is what you get (Ben Graham).

Listen to the Chair Leg of Truth! It does not lie!

Leadership is the wise use of power. Power is the capacity to translate intention into reality and sustain it.

a living dog is better than a dead lion.

Your greatest strength is knowing what you cannot do.

training is not knowledge and knowledge is not strength, but combine training with knowledge and then you

Chiun had often warned him against thinking too much, lest his greater senses be dulled to the subtleties of the moment.

Four Lessons on Life 1. Never take down a fence until you know why it was put up. 2. If you get too far ahead of the army, your soldiers may mistake you for the enemy. 3. Don't complain about the bottom rungs of the ladder they helped to get you higher. 4. If you want to enjoy the rainbow, be prepared to endure the storm.

The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.

The greatest of all fools is the proud fool--who is at the mercy of every fool he meets.

The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use

Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.

Age is a matter of feeling, not of years.

The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use.

Chi conquista un migliaio dei soliti cuori ha diritto a qualche fama, ma chi sa rimaner assoluto padrone del cuore di una civetta è veramente un eroe.

Alas! is there not wisdom enough extant for the instruction of the world? And if not, are there not thousands of abler pens labouring for its improvement?—It is so much pleasanter to please than to instruct—to play the companion rather than the preceptor.

Knowledge is power, and truth is knowledge; whoever, therefore, knowingly propagates a prejudice, wilfully saps the foundation of his country's strength.

He had been struck, in the course of his travels in the old countries of Europe, with the wisdom of those notices posted up in country towns, that "any vagrant found begging there would be put in the stocks," and he had observed that no beggars were to be seen in these neighborhoods; having doubtless thrown off their rags and their poverty, and become rich under the terror of the law. He

after a man passes 60 , his mischief is mainly in his head

I seek truth in a book and not the subject.

Music is the ultimate teacher.

If you know the enemy and you know yourself, you need not fear the results of a hundred battles