Quotes About Wisdom

That is the way with wise people—they are so wise and practical that they always know to a dot just why something cannot be done; they always know the limitations. That is why I never employ an expert in full bloom. If ever I wanted to kill opposition by unfair means I would endow the opposition with experts. They would have so much good advice that I could be sure they would do little work.

Failure is the opportunity to begin again, only more intelligently.

The ability to know how to get the information is more important than using the mind as a garage of facts.

Hidup adalah serangkaian pengalaman, Setiap pengalaman membuat kita lebih besar, walau pun kita tidak menyadarinya.

True education is gained through the discipline of life. There

Skepticism, if by that we mean cautiousness, is the balance wheel of civilization.

The problem with wise people. They always know what is wrong. So I never employ an expert in full bloom.

Most of the present acute troubles of the world arise out of taking on new ideas without first carefully investigating to discover if they are good ideas. An idea is not necessarily good because it is old, or necessarily bad because it is new, but if an old idea works, then the weight of the evidence is all in its favor. Ideas

Thinking calls for facts; facts are found by digging; but he who has gathered this wealth is well equipped for life.

B?t k? ai d?ng h?c t?p ??u già, dù anh ta ? tu?i hai m??i hay tám m??i.

Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently.

We learn extra from our failures than from our successes.

Old men are always advising young men to save money. That is bad advice. Don't save every nickel. Invest in yourself.

Anyone who stops learning i: old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. The greatest thing in life is to keep your mind young.

All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

The only way we could remember would be by constant re-reading, for knowledge unused tends to drop out of mind. Knowledge used does not need to be remembered; practice forms habits and habits make memory unnecessary. The rule is nothing; the application is everything.

There are men regarded today as brilliant economists, who deprecate saving and recommend squandering on a national scale as the way of economic salvation; and when anyone points to what the consequences of these policies will be in the long run, they reply flippantly, as might the prodigal son of a warning father: "In the long run we are all dead." And such shallow wisecracks pass as devastating epigrams and the ripest wisdom.

The notion that we can dismiss the views of all previous thinkers surely leaves no basis for the hope that our own work will prove of any value to others.

The ideas which now pass for brilliant innovations and advances are in fact mere revivals of ancient errors, and a further proof of the dictum that those who are ignorant of the past are condemned to repeat it.

Any man with a moderate income can afford to buy more books than he can read in a lifetime.

Man is the only creature that dares to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned to put it out.

The fatal futility of Fact.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth — I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.