Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- Every day is a little life; and our whole life but a day repeated.
- Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
- Every great work is the result of vast preparatory training.
- Everything you desire is infinitely small compared to what you already have.
- Expedients are for the hour; principles for the ages.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other.
- Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other, and scarce in that; for it is true we may give advice, but we cannot give conduct.
- Experience, the name men give to their mistakes.
- Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
- Farmers channel the water; fletchers straighten the arrow; carpenters work the timber; the wise tame themselves.
- Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
- Focus is the art of knowing what to ignore.
- Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
- Fools make feasts, and wise men eat them.
- For all right judgment of any man or thing it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
- For every effect there is a root cause. Find and address the root cause rather than try to fix the effect, as there is no end to the latter.
- For knowledge, too, is itself a power.
- Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
- From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
- Genius is but a capability of labouring intensely: it is the power of making great and sustained efforts.
- Genius will falter by the side of labor, great powers will yield to great industry.
- Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice: Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgement.
- Giving up something now for something better later is not a sacrifice. It is an investment.
- Good order is the foundation of all good things.
- Good thoughts are blessed guests, and should be heartily welcomed, well fed, and much sought after. Like rose leaves, they give out a sweet smell if laid up in the jar of memory.
- Great Minds Discuss Ideas, Average Minds Discuss Events, Small Minds Discuss People
- Grow your own cherries, but don't sing your own praises.
- Growth in wisdom may be exactly measured by decrease in bitterness.
- Happiness depends on the taste, and not on the thing: and it is by having what we like that we are made happy, and not by having what others consider likeable.
- Happiness is where we find it, but rarely where we seek it.
- Hard work brings health, and an ounce of health is worth a sack of diamonds.
- Hardships make us strong. Problems give birth to wisdom. Sorrows cultivate compassion. Those who have suffered the most will become the happiest.
- Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
- He can never speak well, who knows not how to hold his peace.
- He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
- He that gives good advice, builds with one hand; he that gives good counsel and example, builds with both; but he that gives good admonition and bad example, builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.
- He that is warned by all the folly of others, has attained the soundest wisdom.
- He that loves reading, has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform.
- He that never thinks never can be wise.