Quotes About Wisdom

The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret

Open your ears before you open your mouth, it may surprise your eyes!

Humility is the light of understanding.

There is one thing to be remembered: that the assertion 'I am God' cannot be made with regard to the sense-world.

Once a person stops searching for information and self-knowledge, ignorance sets in.

A little more moderation would be good. Of course, my life hasn't exactly been one of moderation.

He who wishes to be rich in a day will be hanged in a year.

The straight line cannot proceed through the torturous twists of life.

You will come to know that what appears today to be a sacrifice will prove instead to be the greatest investment that you will ever make.

We should be too big to take offense and too noble to give it.

Whatever failures I have known, whatever errors I have committed, whatever follies I have witnessed in private and public life have been the consequence of action without thought.

Five years from now, you're the same person except for the people you've met and the books you've read.

It's easy to carry the past as a burden instead of a school. It's easy to let it overwhelm you instead of educate you.

He never went out without a book under his arm, and he often came back with two.

When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.

Our life is shaped by our mind; we become what we think.

Take every failure as an experience, cause to be successful you need experience.

[The Master] doesn't glitter like a jewel... [but is] as rugged and common as a stone.

Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.

Shall I tell you the secret of the true scholar? It is this: every man I meet is my master in some point, and in that I learn of him.

Whenever we're afraid, it's because we don't know enough. If we understood enough, we would never be afraid.

Experience teaches slowly, and at the cost of mistakes.

Education is more valuable than money, in the long run.

A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.