Quotes About Wisdom

President Kennedy would have been better served if he had remembered from his days as a junior officer in the Navy that the closer one gets to a fight, the more one learns of its essence.

If you can go through life without experiencing pain you probably havenÂ't been born yet.

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True wisdom has a curious way of revealing to yourself your own true ignorance.

Ella guided me: sometimes directly, sometimes with story and metaphor, but mostly how she lived.

Jimmy always preached' Charge a pistol. Run from a rifle

experience was not yet my friend

The book doesn't preach; it just offers up another way of looking at life.

I feel like the oldest person in the world with the longest stretch of life before me.

If we were born knowing everything, what would we do with all this time on this earth?

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are greater than your own.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

Never sleep with someone whose troubles are worse than your own.

Never play cards with a man called Doc. Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never sleep with a woman whose troubles are worse than your own.

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

We must use time wisely and forever realize that the time is always ripe to do right.

When a boat come upon a winding river, slow down and the river becomes straight.

A good head and good heart are always a formidable combination. But when you add to that a literate tongue or pen, then you have something very special.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

I learned that to humiliate another person is to make him suffer an unnecessarily cruel fate. Even as a boy, I defeated my opponents without dishonoring them.

Fools multiply when wise men are silent.

Having resentment against someone is like drinking poison and thinking it will kill your enemy.

I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The brave man is not he who does not feel afraid, but he who conquers that fear." "Resentment is like drinking poison and then hoping it will kill your enemies." "A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

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