Quotes About Wisdom

People should find what approach really speaks to them, and then do it. Obviously, better with a good teacher, who can help you on the path. But in any case, basic principles.

The man who is all morality and intellect, although he may be good and even great, is, after all, only half a man.

You have to remember, Frank Sinatra is 82 years old, which is 240 in your years. He's lived three lifetimes! He has good and bad days. He can't run ... around as fast as he used to.

You've got to think ahead from what you're about to say. I might be mad at some guy but if I say what's on my mind, it's probably not going to be good.

I want a man who had the good sense to marry Michelle Obama.

And they're also very good at math, these super boogers, and so they teach Billy the ways of mathematics.

Good words are better than bad strokes.

Bashfulness is more frequently connected with good sense than we find assurance; and impudence, on the other hand, is often the mere effect of downright stupidity.

When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.

A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.

Being a bad parent is a sign of not having learned from experience.

Our greatest heritage is intangible.

If it was wise, manly, and patriotic for us to establish a free government, it is equally wise to attend to the necessary means of its preservation.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.

A prince without letters is a Pilot without eyes. All his government is groping.

For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.

The spirit of rebellion is present in every great city, and the great task of wise government is to keep it dormant, for if it wakes it is a torrent which no dam can hold back.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.

I know no class of my fellowmen, however just, enlightened, and humane, which can be wisely and safely trusted absolutely with the liberties of any other class.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

To follow foolish precedents, and wink With both our eyes, is easier than to think.