Quotes About Wisdom

Why will we be imposed on by antiquity?

Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.

Our present condition is, Legislation without law; wisdom without a plan; a constitution without a name; and, what is strangely astonishing, perfect independence contending for dependence.

The Indian's intercourse with Nature is at least such as admits of the greatest independence of each.

...it was easy to get an incomplete picture of the world if one relied solely on experts, and how important is would be to further rely on oneself

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most beautiful.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

If you are not your own doctor, you are a fool.

Anything that makes weak - physically, intellectually and spiritually, reject it as poison.

What we speak becomes the house we live in.

Beauty isn't about having a pretty face it's about having a pretty mind, a pretty heart, and a pretty soul.

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

One Best Book is Equal To Hundred Good Friends But One Good Friend is Equal To A Library.

Education begins the gentleman, but reading, good company, and reflection must finish him.

A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.

Great opportunities are not seen with your eyes. They are seen with your mind.

Beware of trying to accomplish anything by force.

We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.

Let books be your dining table, / And you shall be full of delights. / Let them be your mattress,/And you shall sleep restful nights

In God's economy, nothing is wasted. Through failure, we learn a lesson in humility which is probably needed, painful though it is.

An expert is a man who has made all the mistakes which can be made, in a narrow field.

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.