Quotes About Wisdom

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

To do the right thing at the right season is a great art.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

You can learn great things from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

A man of great memory without learning hath a rock and a spindle and no staff to spin.

I doubt if anything learnt at school is of more value than great literature learnt by heart.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

The Great Spirit will not make me suffer because I am ignorant. He will put me in a place where I shall be better off than in this world.

We were contented to let things remain as the Great Spirit Chief made them. They were not; and would change the rivers and mountains if they did not suit them.

The difference between a good leader and a great leader is humility.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

Only the great Souls can and know how to love.

Always keep your ego in check and not be afraid to listen. Listening is a great art form.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

All great experience has a guarded entrance and a windowless facade.

When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions

Perseverance and tact are the two great qualities most valuable for all those who would climb, but especially for those who have to step out of the crowd.

Great souls endure in silence.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

Every 10 years you're a different person, and the really great books evolve with you as you get older. They're full of new rewards.

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence.

Truly great men must, I think, experience great sorrow on the earth.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.