Quotes About Wisdom

What this misguided world and generation needs is a massive group of courageous and caring, wise and unwearying women.

You could attach prices to thoughts. Some cost a lot, some a little. And how does one pay for thoughts? The answer, I think, is: with courage.

How can we know who we are and where we are going if we don't know anything about where we have come from and what we have been through, the courage shown, the costs paid, to be where we are?

Among wellborn spirits courage does not depend on age.

There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.

Much better to be crazy provided you know what/where sane is.

The shallow is easy to embrace, but the profound is difficult. To discard the shallow and seek the profound is the way of a person of courage.

If courage wasn't a standard result of aging it meant that the young could somehow acquire it as well.

Courage, contrary to popular belief, is not the absence of fear. Courage is the wisdom to act in spite of fear.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

My advice to you if you should ever be in a hold up is to line up with the cowards and save your bravery for an occasion when it may be of some benefit to you.

O God give us serenity to accept what cannot be changed courage to change what should be changed and wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

On many of the great issues of our time men have lacked wisdom because they have lacked courage.

God gives us always strength enough and sense enough for everything He wants us to do.

My dad always had this little sign on his desk: 'The bigger your head is, the easier your shoes are to fill'. He really drilled that in.

My dad always used to tell me that sometimes you have to have a massive storm in order to clear the sky.

My dad always told me: 'Stop and look back and appreciate what you've done; stop and smell the flowers.'

My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.

'Keep your head down at school.' Those are sage words from my dad. They kept me in check for years.

Dad taught me everything I know, but he would never tell me anything he knew.

My dad was more, "Let's play chess. Read a book, you're stupid." He's more the intellectual type.

There's one piece of advice my dad gave me when he dropped me off at college. He said, "You've got the talent. You can sing and play guitar. That doesn't make you any better than anyone else.".

My dad is a marketing mastermind.

When I was a kid, my parents had a 900-pound television on top of a TV tray. My dad's theory was, 'Let him pull it over his head a few times, he'll learn.'