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Quotes About Wisdom

To understand everything is to forgive everything.
~ Gautama Buddha
The only man who never makes a mistake is the man who never does anything.
~ Theodore Roosevelt
One resolution I have made, and try always to keep, is this: 'To rise above little things'.
~ John Burroughs
If you're the smartest person in the room, you're in the wrong room.
~ Marissa Mayer
I try to extract something positive from every situation, even if it's just learning not to make the same mistake twice.
~ Claudia Schiffer
He who has begun has half done. Dare to be wise -begin!
~ Horace
My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.
~ Helen Gurley Brown
Step with care and great tact. And remember life's a great balancing act.
~ Dr. Seuss
The more he became truly wise, the more he distrusted everything he knew.
~ Voltaire
I've learned that even when I have pains, I don't have to be one.
~ Maya Angelou
What you leave in your children, is more important than what you leave to them
~ Denis Waitley
Don't just learn something from every experience, learn something positive.
~ Al Neuharth
We have to live today by what truth we can get today and be ready tomorrow to call it falsehood.
~ William James
At 13, I was fearless. I looked at everything so positive. When you're older and been through it all, you know how bad it can get. There is a fear of failing.
~ Michelle Kwan
The message behind the words is the voice of the heart.
~ Rumi
The problem with the bronco is to get on and stay on. This is the problem with the Golden Rule-to understand and apply
~ James Cash Penney
You see, you learn from all your bad experiences, so they're really positive. It's all part of the cosmic knowing.
~ Nina Hagen
The true way to render age vigorous is to prolong the youth of the mind.
~ Mortimer Collins
A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
~ John Lasseter
When I was younger I wish I'd known that what often seemed to be the 'end of the world' often turned out to be a positive and transformative experience!
~ Annie Lennox
The only thing certain is nothing is certain.
~ Michel de Montaigne
Surround yourself with people who make you feel stupid.
~ Mick Ebeling
When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.
~ John Lennon
Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!
~ Cory Booker