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Wisdom Quotes
"The person who has lived the most is not the one with the most years but the one with the richest experiences."
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"The more technique you have, the less you have to worry about it. The more technique there is, the less there is."
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"A sharp tongue is the only edge tool that grows keener with constant use."
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"Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing."
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"Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story."
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"Once you get off the bandwagon of believing that truth is your enemy and is bad news with all kinds of associated unhappy obligations, you can then afford to take it on with some enthusiasm and start to have some fun with it."
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"Our desires always disappoint us; for though we meet with something that gives us satisfaction, yet it never thoroughly answers our expectation."
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"Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense."
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"Knowledge is a potential power when we use it to gain wisdom through reflection and careful actions."
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"Altitude reduces all things to their relative proportions, and to the truth. Cares, remorse, disgust become strangers: How easily indifference, contempt, forgetfulness drop away...and forgiveness descends."
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"Why should you, for a mere passing pleasure, risk the loss of those great powers with which you have been endowed?"
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"In the land of the blind, a one eyed man is king."
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"Fortify yourself with contentment for this is an impregnable fortress."
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"Wisdom comes from making mistakes, having the courage to face them, and make adjustments moving forward based upon the knowledge aquired through those experiences."
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"The tongue is the only tool that gets sharper with use."
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"Only he who knows how to speak can be silent."
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"However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue."
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"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."
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"A desire not to butt into other people's business is at least eighty percent of all human wisdom."
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"El sabio puede cambiar de opinion. El necio, nunca."
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"For wisdom: read your Bible repeatedly and apply its truths often."
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"If you buy your experience it's your own. So it's no matter how much you pay for it."
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"It's easier to conceal wisdom than folly."
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"The density of meaning is external and context dependent."
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"Only the foolish insist on making their own mistakes when they can learn from the mistakes of others. Only the wise will understand that success leaves clues, and those clues are there for you to use to achieve great things."
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"When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum."
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"To know when to be generous and when firm-that is wisdom."
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"It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law."
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"All causes shall give way: I am in bloodStepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
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"Don't you believe people when they tell you that people sought for a sign, and believed in miracles because they were ignorant. They did it because they were wise, filthily, vilely wise-too wise to eat or sleep or put on their boots with patience."
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"Listening to podcast, reading a book, listening to an aduibook and watching films isn't waste of time. It's how somebody becomes wise!"
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