Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- Associate with men of good judgment; for judgment is found in conversation. And we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company.
- Avoid popularity; it has many snares, and no real benefit.
- Awareness of ignorance is the beginning of wisdom.
- Be a philosopher; but amid all your philosophy, be still a man.
- Be an observer of providence; for God is showing you ever, by the way in which He leads you, whither He means to lead. Study your trials, your talents, the world's wants, and stand ready to serve God now, in whatever He brings to your hand.
- Be careful who you get advice from. I get advice from people who are where I want to be.
- Be careful with words, they're dangerous. Be wary of them. They begat either demons or angels. It's up to you to give life to one or the other. Be careful, I tell you, nothing is as dangerous as giving free rein to words
- Be not penny-wise; riches have wings; sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
- Before following the crowd, ask yourself if their average result is acceptable to you.
- Better to be unborn, than untaught; for ignorance is the root of misfortune.
- Between two evils, choose neither; between two goods, choose both.
- Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
- Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact.
- Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time.
- Books are the windows through which the soul looks out. A house without books is like a room without windows.
- Boundaries are to protect life, not to limit pleasures.
- Brevity is in writing what charity is to all the other virtues. Righteousness is worth nothing without the one, nor authorship without the other.
- By nothing do men show their character more than by the things they laugh at.
- A man sooner or later discovers that he is the master gardener of his soul, the director of his life.
- By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
- Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
- Character gravitates upward, as with a celestial gravitation, while mere genius, without character, gravitates downward.
- Christianity commands us to pass by injuries; policy, to let them pass by us.
- Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
- Consequences are governed by principles and behavior is governed by values; therefore, value principles!
- Criticism often takes from the tree caterpillars and blossoms together.
- Difficulties come when you don't pay attention to life's whisper. Life always whispers to you first, but if you ignore the whisper, sooner or later you'll get a scream.
- Diffused knowledge immortalizes itself.
- Discernment is not a matter of telling the difference between right and wrong; rather it is telling the difference between right and almost right.
- Do not ask if a man has been through college; ask if a college has been through him; if he is a walking university.
- Don't be afraid to Dig Down. Things worth having are rarely found upon the surface.
- Don't believe in the man who talks most; for mewing cats are very seldom good mousers.
- Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
- Don't pay attention to "authorities," think for yourself.
- Don’t take advice from someone who’s never played the part.
- Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.
- Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water. If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot.
- Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones.
- Every addition to true knowledge is an addition to human power.