Quotes About Wisdom

Those who lose dreaming are lost.

A smart person never ever buys a house or anything on any financial loan.

A college education never hurt anybody who was willing to learn after he got it.

A great fortune in the hands of a fool is a great misfortune.

A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.

A little tact and wise management may often evade resistance, and carry a point, where direct force might be in vain.

A man is getting along on the road to wisdom when he begins to realize that his opinion is just an opinion.

A patient going to a doctor for his first visit was asked, "And whom did you consult before coming to me?""Only the village druggist," was the answer."And what sort of foolish advice did that numbskull give you?" asked the doctor, his tone and manner denoting his contempt for the advice of the layman."Oh," replied his patient, with no malice aforethought, "he told me to come and see you."

Age withers only the outside.

An expert gossiper knows how much to leave out of a conversation

An expert knows all the answers - if you ask the right questions.

Hatred is a boomerang which is sure to hit you harder than the one at whom you throw it.

He that boasts of his own knowledge proclaims his ignorance

Mistakes are a great educator when one is honest enough to admit them and willing to learn from them

Nature abhors a vacuum. When a head lacks brains, nature fills it with conceit.

Nine out of ten people who change their minds are wrong the second time too.

One thing about the school of experience is that it will repeat the lesson if you flunk the first time.

Our wisdom comes usually from our experience, and our experience comes largely from our experience.

People who know the least always argue the most.

Shortchange your education now and you may be short of change the rest of your life.

So few people think. When we find one who really does, we call him a genius

Successful men follow the same advice they prescribe for others.

The best leader is the one who has the sense to surround himself with outstanding people and self-restraint not to meddle with how they do their jobs.

The best mind might be the wisest mind if it were a mind alone that produces wisdom.