Quotes About Wisdom

One tends to give one's fingers too little credit for their own good sense.

It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.

Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever.

I can make a General in five minutes but a good horse is hard to replace.

Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't become enlightened.

A good friend who points out mistakes is to be respected, as if he reveals a secret of hidden treasure.

An unread book does nobody any good

Without a sense of proportion there can be neither good taste nor genuine intelligence, nor perhaps moral integrity.

Good judges develop certain habits of mind. One of those habits of mind is the habit of delaying reaching conclusions until everything has been considered.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

Just avoid things like racing trains to the crossing, doing cocaine, etc. Develop good mental habits.

To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.

. . . if you can tell the difference between good advice and bad advice, you don't need advice.

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.

The search for truth is really a lot of good fun.

Being deeply learned and skilled, being well trained and using well spoken words; This is good luck.

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

A smart model is a good model.

All that God does is for the good.

Good energy was never meant to be waisted on idiocy.

Your education tends to develop the brain while it neglects the heart, so you have a longing for teachings that develop and strengthen the good heart.