Quotes About Wisdom

Learn from the past but use the present to create the future.

In achieving your greatest potential in life, the more enemies you'll make but just "Take care and play the game smart.

Read to lead in order to succeed.

If you don't know how to get success, then follow a person who knows it and you will be there.

Watch, listen, and learn. You can't know it all yourself. Anyone who thinks they do is destined for mediocrity.

God can only send the greater light when men's hearts are able to bear it.

Be careful when getting what you exactly need in life.

The worst question ever asked, is the one which is never asked.

People fail to succeed, and it is not because they don't know anything, but because they don't know what they don't know!

Once bitten, twice shy, thrice shame on me!

To be successful you have to be dumb enough to think you can change the world and smart enough to know how.

You will need to know when to be assertive and wise enough to know when to exercise patience

If you would know these demands of life, you would gain a quicker success, at a greater pace, with less stress than otherwise.

To relinquish a present good through apprehension of a future evil is in most instances unwise ... from a fear which may afterwards turn out groundless you lost the good that lay within your grasp.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgement industry health. And the greatest of these is judgement.

The truest end of life is to know the life that never ends.

The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers.

Pay attention, people! There's no excuse for making the same mistakes that others have made. If you do, it's your own fault and you should expect no sympathy, no compassion.

Apt words have power to suage the tumors of a troubled mind.

The highest that we can attain to is not Knowledge, but Sympathy with Intelligence.

When there is sympathy, there needs but one wise man in a company and all are wise,--so, a blockhead makes a blockhead of his companion. Wonderful power to benumb possesses this brother.

The true teachers are those who help us think for ourselves.

All of life is education and everybody is a teacher and everybody is forever a pupil.

Life is like a confused teacher...first she gives the test and then teaches the lesson