Quotes About Wisdom

If you want to gather honey, don't kick over the beehive.

Let's never try to get even with our enemies, because if we do we will hurt ourselves far more than we hurt them. Let's do as General Eisenhower does: let's never waste a minute thinking about people we don't like.

Only knowledge that is used sticks in your mind.

John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.

Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

If You Have A Lemon, Make A Lemonade That is what a great educator does. But the fool does the exact opposite. If he finds that life has handed him a lemon, he gives up and says: I'm beaten. It is fate. I haven't got a chance. Then he proceeds to rail against the world and indulge in an orgy of selfpity. But when the wise man is handed a lemon, he says: What lesson can I learn from this misfortune? How can I improve my situation? How can I turn this lemon into a lemonade?

The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.

Always avoid the acute angle.

Five hundred years before Christ was born, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus told his students that everything changes except the law of change. He said: You cannot step in the same river twice. The river changes every second; and so does the man who stepped in it. Life is a ceaseless change. The only certainty is today. Why mar the beauty of living today by trying to solve the problems of a future that is shrouded in ceaseless change and uncertainty-a future that no one can possibly foretell?

Every day is a new life to a wise man.

Bernard Shaw once remarked: 'If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

As Lord Chesterfield said to his son: Be wiser than other people if you can; but do not tell them so.

Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.

Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember "Life is too short to be little.

prayer:   God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.

Education," said Dr. John G. Hibben, former president of Princeton University, "is the ability to meet life's situations.

One thing only I know, and that is that I know nothing.

Don't do the natural thing, the impulsive thing. That is usually wrong.

Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

We already know enough to lead perfect lives.

God himself, sir, does not propose to judge man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?

Over three hundred years ago Galileo said:   You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

As wise old Ben Franklin used to say:   If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.

But it takes character and self-control to be understanding and forgiving.