Quotes About Wisdom

Most people live with pleasant illusions, but leaders must deal with hard realities.

You can have a Masters degree in making money, but you will still wind up broke if you have a PhD in spending it.

History can teach us so much, and yet we seem to learns so little.

Truth is only sweet to the ears only after a person is sick of drinking the vinegar of repeated failures.

The best friend of truth is time while the best friend of a leader is results.

Winners learn from the past, live in the present, and lead into the future.

The birth of new knowledge begins with an admission of old ignorance.

Knowledge is understanding universals; wisdom is the ability to recognize universal from the presented particulars.

Modern society drinks in streams of information while dying of wisdom thirst.

Everyone carries a bucket of water and a bucket of gas in life. A leader has learned to throw the right one at the right time.

The challenge for a mentee is not only to learn what he doesn't know, but also to unlearn what he thinks he knows.

What kills leadership growth isn't ignorance, but rather the illusion of knowledge.

You learn from mistakes so the best leaders are constantly making new mistakes on their success journey.

If you're going down the wrong path, speeding up isn't going to help.

I wish people could accomplish everything they want so they could learn its not everything they need.

Defeats are merely repeats with better information.

If life is like a canoe in a raging river then wisdom is the paddle to successfully navigate.

If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.

An order of government, established by such an all-wise, powerful being, must be good and perfect, and must be calculated to promote the permanent peace, happiness, and well-being of all his subjects.

We are all fools when one wise man appears.

Only a fool can't be fooled.

Knowing something may be a terrible burden to bear, but it holds no danger to them as arent afraid of truth.

You cant change what you dont understand.

To face death, that's nothing much. But to feel really stupid when you die, well, that would be insufferable.