Quotes About Wisdom

Fairy tales are another kind of Bible, for those who know how to read them.

We knew many things, and much that is false. He knew nature, which is always true

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Chasing perfection is like chasing the fountain of youth—it's a fool's mission. Immediately divorce your self-esteem from perfectionism.

We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

No man is so brilliant that he can work out everything for himself, so that the wisdom of ages has nothing useful to tell him. To imagine otherwise is to indulge in the most egotistical of hubris.

The choice for Gillray, as for all persons of good sense, was never between perfection and hell on earth, but always between better and worse.

In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong without comment

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. A great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.

Deep in their roots all flowers keep the light.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart, and that is softness of head.

The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

The best executive is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

All the resources we need are in the mind.

It is better to have it and need it, than to need it and not have it.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.