Quotes About Wisdom

The most creative leaders are smart yet naive, playful but disciplined, humble, and proud.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

It is not fair to be old, to put on a brown sweater.

Winter Trees All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.

age and learn to breathe again

the descent follows the ascent—to wisdom as to despair. A man is under the crassest necessity to break down the pinnacles of his moods fearlessly — to the bases; base! to the screaming dregs, to have known the clean air .

Live all you can. It's a mistake not to. It doesn't matter what you do -- but live. This place makes it all come over me. I see it now. I haven't done so -- and now I'm old. It's too late. It has gone past me -- I've lost it. You have time. You are young. Live!

No man ever became great or good except through many and great mistakes.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

the genius of Churchill was his union of affinities of the heart and of the mind, the total fusion of animal and spiritual energy"—but

A quote is just a tattoo on the tongue.

I know now that what makes a fool is an inability to take even his own good advice.

He just thought quietly, 'So this is love. I see, I was wrong about it too', thinking as he had thought before and would think again and as every other man has thought: how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life. [...] 'Perhaps they were right in putting love into books,' he thought quietly. 'Perhaps it could not live anywhere else.

I am older at twenty than a lot of people who have died.

I suppose that people, using themselves and each other so much by words, are at least consistent in attributing wisdom to a still tongue...

And he was not old enough to talk and say nothing at the same time.

There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

Idleness breeds our better virtues.

Read, read, read.

It is a happy faculty of the mind to slough that which conscience refuses to assimilate.

When it's a matter of not-do, I reckon a man can trust himself for advice. But when it comes to a matter of doing, I reckon a fellow had better listen to all the advice he can get.

I give it (grandfather's watch) to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all your breath trying to conquer it.

Only fools imply compliments. The wise man comes right out with it, point-blank. Imply criticism--unless the criticized isn't within earshot.