Quotes About Wisdom

People have been starving for intellectual fodder, but the best way to get people to close their eyes and not say anything is to tell them that they're not smart enough to comprehend.

Don't be afraid of your worst times. If you learn from them, you'll look back on them as the best times.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

One of the best things data can enable us to do is to ask questions we didn't know to ask.

Your best investment is to pour your purse into your head, and no one can take it away from you.

I received the best advice for running I ever heard: 'You're not going to win, so just relax. If it feels like work, you're running too hard.

What fools call "wasting time" is most often the best investment.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I definitely would never go back to my 20s. The best is yet to come.

I am the age that I am and I am trying to do the best with what I got.

Example is the best precept.

The best way to suppose what may come, is to remember what is past.

The best place to find things: the public library.

The best piece of advice that I have ever received is from my mom. And she said, "Do you, boo boo." That is forever going to be the best advice.

The best way to know the Truth or Beauty is to try to express it.

I am convinced that the best service a retired general can perform is to turn in his tongue along with his suit and to mothball his opinions.

The best way to deceive a knave is to tell him the truth.

Sometimes the best gain is to lose.

The best way to help those who are behind you is to heed those before you.

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy.

If you want to catch something, running after it isn't always the best way.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

You are told a lot about your education, but some beautiful, sacred memory, preserved since childhood, is perhaps the best education of all.