Quotes About Wisdom

Hating people is like burning down your house to get rid of a rat.

Hating someone is like burning down your own house to get rid of a rat.

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Civilizations... cannot flourish if they are beset with troublesome infections of mistaken beliefs.

To establish and to sustain an advanced culture, we need to avoid being debilitated either by error or by ignorance. We need to know—and, of course, we must also understand how to make productive use of—a great many truths.

Tell her the three keys to wisdom: not believing all you hear, not spending all you have, and not sleeping all you want. These will be difficult for her until she graduates from college.

Intelligence resembles insanity only to the stupid.

Let me tell you, I may look old but that's just because of my age.

I always get the best advice from myself.

You know, we have a saying that other people boast of the beauty of their women; we boast of our old men.

There are many paths to the top of the mountain, but only one view.

Manchmal denke ich – und es fällt mir schwer das zu sagen -, daß er die Menschen besser kennt als der Chef. Der Chef ist ein Idealist, ein großer Schatz, der das Beste für die Menschen will, ohne zu wissen, mit wem er es eigentlich zu tun hat. Luzifer aber weiß, daß sie lieber Himmel und Erde untergehen lassen würden, als ihr Auto abzumelden.

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Nu moet het echt uit zijn, Onno,' zei zij zacht. 'Er zijn grenzen.' 'Wie heeft jou dat wijsgemaakt?

That question is too good to spoil with an answer.

Predicting correctly is the definition of wisdom.

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Peace is precious to us. It is the way of life we strive for with all the strength and wisdom we possess. But more precious than peace are freedom and justice. We will fight, if fight we must, to keep our freedom and to prevent justice from being destroyed.

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

There is nothing new in the world except the history you do not know.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Intense feeling too often obscures the truth.

Not all readers are leaders, but all leaders are readers.