Quotes About Wisdom

Reality is like a fine wine," he said to me. "It will not appeal to children.

I made a single decision early on. I decided I wouldn't judge my kids. No matter what they told me, I wouldn't judge them. I might have to discipline them, but I wouldn't make them feel like lesser people for their mistakes. And because of that, they learned to trust me with their deepest thoughts... We taught them the basics early. But the older they got, the more I listened without judgment as they figured out how to apply wisdom in their own lives. And they've turned out well.

Stage 2: Enlightenment

when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker.1

honors the journey of the audience and positions us as a leader providing wisdom, products, and services our audience needs in order to thrive.

The strongest character in a story isn't the hero, it's the guide. Yoda. Haymitch. It's the guide who gets the hero back on track. The guide gives the hero a plan and enough confidence to enter the fight. The guide has walked the path of the hero and has the advice and wisdom to get the hero through their troubles so they can beat the resistance.

1.?What do you offer? 2.?How will it make my life better? 3.?What do I need to do to buy it?

The separation of truth from reason is a dangerous game. I think ideas have to sink very deeply into a person's soul, into their being, before they can effect change.

The strategy she recommends to her clients is simple: when giving a speech, position yourself as Yoda and your audience as Luke Skywalker

We do not live this life to build a monument to ourselves, but to pass our understanding of life on to those who come behind us so that their stories can be even more meaningful than ours.

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As president, Lincoln was an intelligent communicator. He was careful about what he said, and he thought before he spoke.

As an entrepreneur, I choose my teachers carefully, very carefully. I am extremely cautious of the people with whom I spend my time and to whom I listen.

Perhaps because my father never got a college degree himself, he continued to view people who had one with a respect that bordered on awe. In most cases they didn't deserve it. My father could run circles around most academics and he would have done very well in college, if he'd been able to go.

Learn something new every day.

When in doubt, ask a librarian.

They hadn't lived long enough to understand what grace it was to die in an instant and not to linger.

La nube del no saber —respondió el conte, e hizo una pausa—. Siempre me ha parecido un título maravilloso para una autobiografía.

There is nothing God does not wish to be understood and investigated by reason.'' He

Her glance put him on the scales and weighed him, and then she said, 'Less trouble accepting reality, I think.

What fools men are to raze a city, destroying tombs, and temples, and sacred places, when they are so soon to die themselves.

People don't change,' she answered, voicing the wisdom Neapolitans had learned over centuries. 'If they suffer enough, they do,' Brunetti said, then quickly amended it to 'or can.' Brunetti's

his own world lived in constant discovery of its own ignorance.

veryone is capable of learning; the trick is knowing what you need to learn.