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Wisdom Quotes
"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying."
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"Through him speaks a shrewd and magnanimous people, a people who have woven together into one wisdom a profound, old, terrible, and unimaginably various experience of life. But he himself is young: impatient, inexperienced. He stands higher than we stand, seeing wider, but he is himself only the height of a man."
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"There are no accidents so unlucky from which clever people are not able to reap some advantage and none so lucky that the foolish are not able to turn them to their own disadvantage."
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"From each according to his abilities, to each according to his needs."
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"No society wants you to be wise, because a wise person is difficult to control."
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
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"Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever."
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"Tell all the Truth, but tell it slant/Success in Circuit lies..."
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"Those who unconsciously despair yet put on the mask of optimism are not necessarily wise. But those who have not given up hope can succeed only if they are hardheaded realists, shed all illusions, and fully appreciate the difficulties."
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"Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit."
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"Realtechnik is skeptical about linear progress. It encourages humility, a state of mind in which we are most open to facing problems and reconsidering decisions. It helps us acknowledge costs and recognize the things we hold inviolate."
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"Never stir up litigation. A worse man can scarcely be found than one who does this."
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"Mistakes are your school of learning therefore forgiveness is your greatest teacher in this school of learning."
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"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations."
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"Because supposedly those who forget the past are condemned to repeat it."
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"Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children."
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"And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face."
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"And all the other tools that mistook information for knowledge."
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"The knowledge we need, we are predisposed to seeking, intuitively.A fool does not know, what to do with importance, how to gauge importance, but they readily seek influence.The corrupt didn't find the expanse of life giving thought, because their self is their center; the stagnant find it hard to revolve.The wise do not subscribe to the fodder that feeds the herd, because they are not predisposed to being swept along in banal minutiae."
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"Vanity of science. Knowledge of physical science will not console me for ignorance of morality in time of affliction, but knowledge of morality will always console me for ignorance of physical science."
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"Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom."
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"Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons."
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"Sometimes the best way to learn a lesson isn't just hearing the words, but putting it into practice by experimenting with it and finding its truth for yourself instead of taking someone else's word for it."
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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."
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"Failure is an opportunity.If you blame someone else,there is no end to the blame.Therefore the Masterfulfills her own obligationsand corrects her own mistakes.She does what she needs to doand demands nothing of others."
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"Fine gold is recognized when it is tested."
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