Quotes About Wisdom

A wise coach keeps an open mind and does not make assumptions about people. —Jack Canfield and Peter Chee

Sometimes smart people can do very, very stupid things.

There are essentially two things that will make you wise -- the books you read and the people you meet.

Sometimes the most important shots in battle are the ones not taken.

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Don't rush to your death.

We would be wise to remember that the Athenian historian Thucydides in the Melian Dialogue of his History of the Peloponnesian War characterizes hope as danger's comforter.

We are the accumulation of our past experiences. How we channel those experiences and knowledge into wisdom as we move forward is critical.

I've told you before, as fast as you are, even you can't outrun time. It has a nasty way of catching up with you. Trust me. I know.

Mr. Donovan, I have been in this chair for over thirty years.

An intelligent man [doesn't] know everything, he simply [knows] how to look everything up quickly and efficiently." - Jack Chalker, Songs of the Dancing Gods

Unlike some other gurus, he doesn't believe he is predicting the future; he is simply observing what is happening and making rational bets.

Undertrade, undertrade, undertrade is my second piece of advice. Whatever you think your position ought to be, cut it at least in half. My experience with novice traders is that they trade three to five times too big.

As Einstein himself pointed out. He said we're like people in a boat without oars drifting along a winding river. Around us we see only the present. We can't see the past, back in the bends and curves behind us. But it's there.

As Einstein famously said, "Problems cannot be solved at the same level of awareness that created them.

Henry Miller once wrote: "No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance."3

Serious people have few ideas," said Paul Valéry. "People with ideas are never serious.

You teach what you know... but impart who you are.

You'll see...Everyone foolishly goes through hating their past—when they should realize it is the one true thing you have.

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you don't always have to hold your head higher than your heart

The wisdom's in the trees not the glass windows.

It's as simple as something that nobody knows.

Man lowers his head and lunges into civilization, forgetting the days of his infancy when he sought truth in a snowflake or a stick. Man forgets the wisdom of the child.