Quotes About Wisdom

There is no substitute for accurate knowledge. Know yourself, know your business, know your men.

A guy named Charlie Beacham was my first mentor at Ford. He taught me the importance of the dealers, and he rubbed my nose in the retail business.

I always kept in mind my father's warning: "If he's bigger than you are, don't fight back. Use your head instead of your fists.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself. But He's a charitable Lord: He only lets you see one day at a time.

Mistakes are a part of life; you can't avoid them. All you can hope is that they won't be too expensive and that you don't make the same mistake twice.

It's a good thing God doesn't let you look a year or two into the future, or you might be sorely tempted to shoot yourself.

When you're Singapore's leader and your existence depends on performance - extraordinary performance, better than your competitors - when that performance disappears because the system on which it's been based becomes eroded, then you've lost everything... I try to tell the younger generation that and they say the old man is playing the same record, we've heard it all before. I happen to know how we got here and I know how we can unscramble it." - On one freak election result ruining Singapore

If you do not know history, you think short term. If you know history, you think medium and long term

I do not want to sound like a hawk or a dove. If I have to choose a metaphor from the aviary, I would like to think of the owl.

Being humble is the key to learning because it is the ego that keeps our minds closed to new ideas.

Those that'll tell don't know, and those that know won't tell.

I may have been born yesterday, but I stayed up all night.

In the game of life it's a good idea to have a few early losses, which relives you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season

People mature at different stages and I feel I'm learning a lot.

The cherubim of love are better far Than pillared wisdom's most seraphic star. And knowledge cannot bring the sweet delight Of childhood's faith that pierces darkest night.

Words are but the shining garments of Thought.

Our Reason walks with weary, bruiséd feet. But Intuition soars with wings complete. The conscious mind is not so much the man As that subconscious force that knows Life's plan.

When first we pay the price of wisdom With innocence, We are too shocked to understand. Then later must we sit and wonder Whether it was worth the cost To know what every one must some day know. And knowing, ever after be afraid, And filled with shame.

The Royal Road to Knowledge, all may win, Who seek the source of Life in everything.

All things bend to help the man Who seeks to harmonize His own free will with nature's plan, And prove himself most wise.

Religion, like all things, begins with self, And naught is known, until one knows himself.

The knowledge which we have acquired ought not to resemble a great shop without order, and without an inventory; we ought to know what we possess, and be able to make it serve us in need.

When God works miracles, he does not do it in order to supply the wants of nature, but those of grace. Whoever thinks otherwise, must needs have a very mean notion of the wisdom and power of God.

Virtue is the habit of acting according to wisdom.