Quotes About Wisdom

Principle 1 Don't criticize, condemn or complain.

President Lincoln was a master communicator, and humility was at the heart of all he said.

Seja mais sábio do que os outros se puder, mas não avise a ninguém.

Os homens devem ser ensinados como se não fossem ensinados, e o desconhecido, proposto como se fosse algo esquecido.

I want you to think of your life as an hourglass. You know there are thousands of grains of sand in the top of the hourglass; and they all pass slowly and evenly through the narrow neck in the middle. Nothing you or I could do would make more than one grain of sand pass through this narrow neck without impairing the hourglass. You I and everyone else are like this hourglass. When

Neither you nor I nor Einstein nor the Supreme Court of the United States is brilliant enough to reach an intelligent decision on any problem without first getting the facts. Thomas Edison knew that. At the time of his death, he had two thousand five hundred notebooks filled with facts about the problems he was facing.

Portanto, não pensem no amanhã, pois o amanhã trará as suas próprias preocupações. Basta a cada dia o seu próprio mal.

It was not that I did not love you; it was that I expected too much of youth. I was measuring you by the yardstick of my own years.

Quien pisa con suavidad va lejos".

He who treads softly goes far.

If you are going to prove anything, don't let anybody know it. Do it so subtly, so adroitly, that no one will feel that you are doing it. This was expressed succinctly by Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot.

Any fool can try to defend his or her mistakes - and most fools do - but it raises one above the herd and gives one a feeling of nobility and exultation to admit one's mistakes.

Sé diplomático —le dijo el rey—, te ayudará a obtener tus deseos.

Pois a vida é curta demais para ser pequena.

So the sun went behind a cloud, and the wind blew until it was almost a tornado, but the harder it blew, the tighter the old man clutched his coat to him. Finally, the wind calmed down and gave up, and then the sun came out from behind the clouds and smiled kindly on the old man. Presently, he mopped his brow and pulled off his coat. The sun then told the wind that gentleness and friendliness were always stronger than fury and force.

I taught President Roosevelt how to handle a car with a lot of unusual gadgets, but he taught me a lot about the fine art of handling people.

Say to yourself over and over: "My peace of mind, my happiness, my health, and perhaps even my income will, in the long run, depend largely on applying the old, obvious, and eternal truths taught in this book.

every month all the insurance contracts her company issues. Yes, she reads the same contracts over month after month, year after year. Why? Because experience has taught

Um grande homem demonstra sua grandeza pela forma como trata os pequenos", disse o filósofo escocês Thomas Carlyle.

Buda dijo: "El odio nunca es vencido por el odio sino por el amor"

For life is too short to be little.

Lincoln guardou a carta pois aprendera, por meio de experiências amargas, que críticas duras e reprovações quase nunca geram algo de útil.

Below the bust are carved these wise words from General Obregon's philosophy: Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!