Quotes About Wisdom

Teachability is an attitude of wanting to learn from every experience and every person.

The fellow who never makes a mistake takes his orders from one who does.

Experience isn't the best teacher—evaluated experience is.

the difference between who you are today and who you will be in five years will be the people you spend time with and the books you read. The

Today is a reader, tomorrow's a leader...

it's not over until you've learned from it.

Too many leaders are like bad travel agents. They send people places they have never been. Instead, they should be more like tour guides, taking people places they have gone and sharing the wisdom of their own experiences.

The number-one reason most people lose arguments is not because they're wrong; it's because they don't know when to quit.

Una de las razones que Dios tuvo al crear el tiempo fue para que hubiera un lugar donde enterrar los fracasos del pasado.. —JAMES LONG

Before you attempt to set things right, make sure you see things right.

DON'T COUNT LOSSES—INSTEAD, COUNT LESSONS

deaf ear is evidence of a closed mind.

El que busca una cosa, y solo una, Quizá la consiga antes de que esta vida se acabe. Pero el que lo busca todo dondequiera que va Debe cosechar a su alrededor en todo lo que siembre Una cosecha de estéril lamento.

The wise does at once what the fool does at last.

Creo que cada experiencia tiene algo que enseñarnos, pero muchos fallan en aprender de las suyas porque se enfocan en las pérdidas más que en las lecciones.

French essayist Michel Eyquem de Montaigne wrote, "The value of life lies not in the length of days, but in the use we make of them; a man may live long yet live very little.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning.

Sydney Harris sums up the elements of a teachable mind-set: "A winner knows how much he still has to learn, even when he is considered an expert by others. A loser wants to be considered an expert by others before he has learned enough to know how little he knows.

Un fracasado es una persona que hace las cosas mal pero que no es capaz de sacar beneficio de la experiencia.. —ELBERT HUBBARD

The real art of conversation is not only to say the right thing in the right place, but to leave unsaid the wrong thing at

The ability to learn from mistakes has value not just in business but in all aspects of life. If you live to learn, then you will really learn to live.

Sometimes the best thing we can do for someone else is to hold our tongue. When tempted to give advice that's not wanted, to show off, to say "I told you so," or to point out another's error, the best policy is to say nothing. As nineteenth-century British journalist George Sala advised, we should strive "not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Success leads to the greatest failure, which is pride. Failure leads to the greatest success, which is humility and learning. —DAVID BROOKS

Matt. 13:10–13)