Quotes About Wisdom

There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.

A real leader will always follow . . .

As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.

Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.

I started looking back and now understand how wrong I was.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.

Todos los hombres que encuentro son superiores a mí en algún sentido; y en tal sentido puedo aprender de todos".

I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith packed a lot of wisdom into a few words when he said: "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Se ha de enseñar a los hombres como si no se les enseñara. Y proponerles cosas ignoradas como si fueran olvidadas.

Sólo sé que no sé nada".

sharp criticisms and rebukes almost invariably end in futility.

You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience

And 2,200 years before Christ was born, King Akhtoi of Egypt gave his son some shrewd advice—advice that is sorely needed today. "Be diplomatic," counseled the King. "It will help you gain your point.

I may be wrong. I frequently am. Let's examine the facts.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding that limit.

Lincoln did go to see Stanton. Stanton convinced him that the order was wrong, and Lincoln withdrew it. Lincoln welcomed criticism when he knew it was sincere, founded on knowledge, and given in a spirit of helpfulness.

Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.

Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.

You have made a mistake, Josephine," he would begin, "but Lord knows, it's no worse than many I have made.

It was said of Emerson that he was always willing to listen to any man, no matter how humble his station, because he felt he could learn something from every man he met.

you are better than I was at your age. I have been guilty of so many silly things myself