Quotes About Wisdom

All one can really leave one's children is what's inside their heads. Education, in other words, and not earthly possessions, is the ultimate legacy, the only thing that cannot be taken away.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

If you don't have wrinkles, you haven't laughed enough.

There are no beautiful surfaces without a terrible depth.

Don't judge a book by its cover 'til you've read the book.

Keep alive within you and bring under wise control that courage which makes you long to undertake great works, which others might consider it folly to attempt.

If I accept the sunshine and warmth, then I must also accept the thunder and lightning.

You can be smart and happy or stupid and miserable. . . it's your choice

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

If people did not sometimes do silly things, nothing intelligent would ever get done.

We lose the fear of making decisions, great and small; as we realize that should our choice prove wrong we can, if we will, learn from the experience.

One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings

Nothing is more powerful for your future than being a gatherer of good ideas and information. That's called doing your homework.

Look within!... The secret is inside you.

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

You cannot teach a child to take care of himself unless you will let him try to take care of himself. He will make mistakes and out of these mistakes will come his wisdom.

The best manner of avenging ourselves is by not resembling him who has injured us.

Be proud of every scar on your heart, each one holds a lifetime's worth of lessons.

Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly.

Good teaching is more a giving of right questions than a giving of right answers.

Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print; experience is what you get when you don't.

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life.

One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, "Is it half full or half empty?" So I drank the water. No more problem.

When you sell a man a book, you don't sell him 12 ounces of paper and ink and glue - you sell him a whole new life.