Quotes About Wisdom

We don't need prophets to tell us how to live; we can find out for ourselves by consulting what's actually there.

What you do is to teach a hundred what I taught you, and inspire each of them to teach a hundred. That's how it's always done.

WHAT you DO NOT KNOW YOURSELF, you CANNOT TEACH ANOTHER.

Tribal people get more out of life.

it's the work of animism to read the Law of Life that is written in the community of life.

But when it's read another way, the explanation makes perfectly good sense: Man can never have the wisdom the gods use to rule the world, and if he tries to preempt that wisdom, the result won't be enlightenment, it will be death.

We went wrong by failing to take into account a great truth, namely, that teals are stupid and lazy and perfectly content to stay that way.

If there is cheesy packaging around a universal truth, does that make the universal truth inside any less valid?

Education is a gift that none can take away.

Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.

You can't let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

There is no education like adversity.

Education is the key. If you are educated, nothing can defeat you.

I learned from watching and I learned from doing.

Man is what he reads.

But I look at failure as education. In that respect, I am so well-educated.

Learning is acquired by reading books, but the much more necessary learning, the knowledge of the world, is only to be acquired by reading men, and studying all the various facets of them.

Take the attitude of a student, never be too big to ask questions, never know too much to learn something new.

Time is the best teacher, but unfortunately, it kills all of its students.

There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.

When you're down in the hole, when that moment comes, it's really okay to feel bad for a little while – give yourself time to mourn what you think you may have lost – but, then, here's the key: Learn from every mistake.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

She speaks with wisdom, and faithful instruction is on her tongue.

"My son, do not despise the Lord's discipline and do not resent his rebuke, because the Lord disciplines those he loves, as a father the son he delights in."