Quotes About Wisdom

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

Within us there is someone who knows everything, wills everything, does everything better than we ourselves.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

There can be no excellence without insight.

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Every new experience brings its own maturity and a greater clarity of vision.

Experience is the teacher of all things.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

Every old goalkeeper loses a step at some point, but you can gain that back through experience.

Experience is a truer guide than the words of others.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

Remind your critics when they say you don't have the expertise or experience to do something that an amateur built the ark and the experts built the Titanic

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Everyone gets the experience. Some get the lesson.

I've only been doing this fifty-four years. With a little experience, I might get better.