Quotes About Wisdom

Sometimes I wish I could put an expiration date on my quotes.

A wise and clear-eyed book, Future Hype challenges the conventional wisdom about technological change and provides a fresh perspective on our so-called computer age.

Maturity: the confidence to have no opinions on many things.

There is no worse screen to block out the Spirit than confidence in our own intelligence.

The longer your gevity is, the more confidence you build.

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

True confidence comes from realizing the view.

I've learned what works and what doesn't, which gives me confidence.

After every mistake, we need to understand that we can look back and learn-so that we can move forward with confidence and avoid making the same mistake again.

Humility is attentive patience.

There is nothing so skillful in its own defense as imperious pride.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

Confidence, clarity and compassion are essential qualities of a teacher.

With each year that's gone by, and as I grow up and get older, I've become more mature, of course, but you have a sense of who you are, and you find confidence in that.

I have great confidence in the common sense of mankind in general.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Tis the ignorant who boast.

Some positive persisting fops we know, Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so; But you with pleasure own your errors past, And make each day a critique on the last.

The line between confidence and arrogance is very fine, Josh," Flamel said quietly. "And the line between arrogance and stupidity even finer. Sophie," he added, without looking at her.

It was his cunning, this confidence and farsightedness in dealing with his own Clan, that made Crookedstar one of the strongest leaders the Clans have ever seen.

The real evidence of growing older is that things level off in importance.

The truly wise are content to be last. They are, therefore, first. They are indifferent to themselves. They are, therefore self-confident.

You may have noticed that the less I know about a subject the more confidence I have, and the more new light I throw on it.

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence. Do not go forth to-day.