Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- A great advantage can be found in accepting hard truths faster than others.
- A great library contains the diary of the human race.
- A handful of good life is better than a bushel of learning.
- A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring.
- A life of slothful ease, a life of that peace which springs merely from lack either of desire or of power to strive after great things, is as little worthy of a nation as of an individual.
- A little neglect may breed great mischief; for want of a nail the shoe was lost; for want of a shoe the horse was lost; and for want of a horse the rider was lost.
- A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying, in other words, that he is wiser today than he was yesterday.
- A man who knows how little he knows is well, a man who knows how much he knows is sick.
- A man with great talents, but void of discretion, is like Polyphemus in the fable, strong and blind, endued with an irresistible force, which for want of sight is of no use to him.
- A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
- A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
- A small leak will sink a great ship.
- A sound discretion is not so much indicated by never making a mistake, as by never repeating it.
- A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.
- A wise man is a maker of opportunities.
- A wise man rules his passions, a fool obeys them.
- A wise man will make more opportunities, than he finds.
- Accident does very little towards the production of any great result in life.
- Acknowledging what you don’t know is the dawning of wisdom.
- Advice is like snow; the softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind.
- After all, you only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.
- All that mankind has done, thought, gained, or been, it is all lying in magic preservation in the pages of books.
- All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
- All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience.
- All types of knowledge, ultimately mean self knowledge.
- Allow me to assure you that suspicion and jealousy never did help any man in any situation.
- Ambition makes the same mistake concerning power that avarice makes concerning wealth. She begins by accumulating power as a mean to happiness, and she finishes by continuing to accumulate it as an end.
- An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes.
- An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- An opinion should be the result of thought, not a substitute for it.
- An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
- Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.
- Anger is never without a Reason, but seldom with a good One.
- Any man at times will stumble, and it is then our duty to lift him up and set him on his feet again; but no man can be permanently carried, for if he expects to be carried he shows that he is not worth carrying.
- Aphorisms are portable wisdom.
- As a mountain of rock is unshaken by wind, so also, the wise are unperturbed by blame or by praise.
- As the art of reading (after a certain stage in one's education) is the art of skipping, so the art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- As the fountain from the hidden spring, so issues man's life from the secret recesses of his heart.
- As there is no worldly gain without some loss, so there is no worldly loss without some gain.