Quotes About Wisdom

They told me I didn't understand the assignment, I told them they didn't understand life.

Only fools are positive.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Only fools and dead men don't change their minds. Fools won't. Dead men can't.

Open your mind before your mouth

No matter who you meet in life, you take something from them, positive or negative.

A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

Sooner or later, false thinking brings wrong conduct.

Live to learn and you will really learn to live.

I am conscious of my inability to grasp, in all its details and positive developments, any very large portion of human knowledge.

Never say anything on the phone that you wouldn't want your mother to hear at your trial.

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter.

Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought, sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.

Conservation is a positive exercise of skill and insight, not merely a negative exercise of abstinence and caution.

Everything in the universe goes by indirection. There are no straight lines.

My grandmother always told me you must keep to your old roads and stick to your original friends and just go through smooth, be careful and stay positive.

The legitimate function of the mind is to tell you what is not. But if you want positive knowledge, you must go beyond the mind.

To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.

The truth is that you are innately good, wise, and powerful. You were created in and for good.

If you can see life as a learning experience, you can turn any negative into a positive.

The Pearl Principle - no inner irritation, no pearl.

Thought, without the data on which to structure that thought, leads nowhere.