Quotes About Wisdom

Be patient and tough; someday this pain will be useful to you.

Wise people learn when they can; fools learn when they must.

Don't make a habit out of choosing what feels good over what's actually good for you.

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

Don't let your learning lead to knowledge. Let your learning lead to action.

I'm like a fine wine. I get better with age. The best is yet to come.

For it is easy to criticize and break down the spirit of others, but to know yourself takes a lifetime.

Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, and add what is specifically your own.

In the business world, everyone is paid in two coins: cash and experience. Take the experience first; the cash will come later.

Don't be afraid to take advice. There's always something new to learn.

So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can install, a lovely bookcase on the wall.

No one should be ashamed to admit they are wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that they are wiser today than they were yesterday.

The wise man in the storm prays God not for safety from danger but for deliverance from fear. It is the storm within which endangers him[,] not the storm without.

Study hard, for the well is deep, and our brains are shallow.

When you're green, your growing. When you're ripe, you rot.

Learn all you can from the mistakes of others. You won't have time to make them all yourself.

The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think.

Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

Don't read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.

Those who will not read are no better off than those who cannot read.

Inspiration springs more readily from knowledge than from ignorance.

Learners inherit the earth; while the learned find themselves beautifully equipped to deal with a world that no longer exists.

When you talk, you repeat what you already know; when you listen, you often learn something.

motivation alone is not enough.if you have an idiot and you motivate him,now you have a motivated idiot.