Quotes About Wisdom

Only a fool never changes his mind.

Listen – it makes you sound smarter

Acquiring the habit of note-taking is therefore a wonderfully complementary skill to that of listening.

Live for the present –' I heard my parents' old maxim in the back of my head '– and the future will look after itself.

Listen. Take the best. Leave the rest.

la cultura se come a la estrategia de un bocado".

Todos los dias se aprende algo nuevo

Vive como si fueras a morir mañana. Aprende como si fueras a vivir por siempre". Este

I would advise young people starting out in life to keep a notebook with them.

Not one of us gets all of the understanding we want, and few get as much as we need.

Lincoln was less well-read than many a professor or journalist, but what he read, he read deeply.

Lincoln told a family friend that his father taught him to work, but never learned him to love it.

Inspiring words are potent, and sometimes dangerous, things. They can inspire idiots and devils as well as great man.

Good politicians know when to move on, sooner or later.

By and large, I seem to have made more mistakes than any others of whom I know, but have learned thereby to make ever swifter acknowledgment of the errors and thereafter immediately set about to deal more effectively with the truths disclosed by the acknowledgment of erroneous assumptions.

You can never learn less, you can only learn more.

Humans beings always do the most intelligent thing…after they've tried every stupid alternative and none of them have worked

Reading is a gift. It's something you can do almost anytime and anywhere. It can be a tremendous way to learn, relax, and even escape. So, enough about the virtues of reading. Time to read on.

Life didn't come with a fool-proof manual.

The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't make it a top priority during your lifetime.

The first step towards knowledge is to know that we are ignorant.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.