Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- The true and strong and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.
- The true way to be deceived is to think oneself more knowing than others.
- The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- The truly wise man or woman will recognize no one as an enemy.
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
- The unexamined life is not worth living.
- The way of a superior man is three-fold: virtuous, he is free from anxieties; wise, he is free from perplexities; bold, he is free from fear.
- The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land.
- The wisdom of life is in preventing all the evil we can, and using what is inevitable to the best purpose.
- The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation.
- The Wise do at once what the Fool does at last. Both do the same thing; the only difference lies in the time they do it: the one at the right time, the other at the wrong.
- The wise man guards against future evils as if they were present.
- The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
- The wise prove, and the foolish confess, by their conduct, that a life of employment is the only life worth leading.
- The wise try to adjust themselves to the truth, while fools try to adjust the truth to themselves.
- The years have taught some sweet, some bitter lessons--none wiser than this: to spend in all things else, but of old friends to be most miserly.
- There are no accidents so unfortunate from which skilful men will not draw some advantage, nor so fortunate that foolish men will not turn them to their hurt.
- There are no chances 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 to their own disadvantage.
- There are plenty of good maxims in the world; we fail only in applying them.
- There are two types of knowledge. One is knowing a thing. The other is knowing where to find it.
- There is a Book worth all other books which were ever printed.
- There is nearly as much ability requisite to know how to profit by good advice as to know how to act for one's self.
- There is no such thing as failure to one who makes it a lesson in wisdom.
- There is no such thing on earth as an uninteresting subject; the only thing that can exist is an uninterested person.
- There is nothing as easy as denouncing. It don't take much to see that something is wrong but it does take some eyesight to see what will put it right again.
- There is nothing more important than understanding how reality works and how to deal with it.
- There is nothing permanent except change.
- There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.
- There’s a whole bunch of things I don’t know a thing about. I just stay away from those. I stay within what I call my circle of competence.
- Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.
- Thinking is the hardest work any one can do—which is probably the reason why we have so few thinkers.
- This is such a serious world that we should never speak at all unless we have something to say.
- Those who understand others are clever, those who understand themselves are wise.
- Thou mayest as well expect to grow stronger by always eating, as wiser by always reading. Too much overcharges nature, and turns more into disease than nourishment.
- Time is what we want most, but what alas! we use worst.
- To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
- To choose time is to save time.
- To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom, in the pursuit of truth as in the endeavor after a worthy manner of life.
- To excel others is a proof of talent; but to know when to conceal that superiority is a greater proof of prudence.