Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
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- He that questioneth much will learn much.
- He that studies books alone, will know how things ought to be; and he that studies men will know how things are.
- He that will follow good advice, is a greater man than he that gives it.
- He that won’t be counsell’d, can’t be help’d.
- He who calls in the aid of an equal understanding doubles his own; and he who profits by a superior understanding raises his powers to a level with the height of the superior understanding he unites with.
- He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that reason is weak.
- He who has injured thee was either stronger or weaker; if weaker, spare him; if stronger, spare thyself.
- He who has no mind to trade with the devil, should be so wise as to keep away from his shop.
- He who knows his enemy and himself well will not be defeated easily.
- He who knows other men is discerning; he who knows himself is intelligent. He who overcomes others is strong; he who overcomes himself is mighty.
- He who knows others is wise;He who know himself is enlightened.
- He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labours in his fields but does not sow.
- He who lives without folly is not so wise as he imagines.
- He who sedulously attends, pointedly asks, calmly speaks, coolly answers, and ceases when he has no more to say, is in possession of some of the best requisites of conversation.
- He who thinks little, errs much.
- He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight.
- Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
- Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
- How can a man come to know himself? Never by thinking, but by doing. Try to do your duty, and you will know at once what you are worth.
- Humility is the mother of giants. One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.
- Hundreds of people can talk for one who can think.
- I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided; and that is the lamp of experience. I know way of judging the future but by the past.
- I have found nothing better for man than silence; not learning but doing is the chief thing
- I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.
- I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
- I wasn't put on this earth to act. I was put on this earth to share and to be an example of the power and wisdom and grace and mercy of God in my life.
- I would trade all of my technology for an afternoon with Socrates.
- Ideas are everywhere, but knowledge is rare.
- If a man empties his purse into his head no man can take it from him. An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
- If it can be solved, there's no need to worry, and if it can't be solved, worry is of no use.
- If knowledge is power, knowing what we don’t know is wisdom.
- If one only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they are.
- If someone shows you who they really are, believe them.
- If thou desire to be held wise, be so wise as to hold thy tongue.
- If thou seest anything in thyself which may make thee proud, look a little further and thou shalt find enough to humble thee; if thou be wise, view the peacock's feathers with his feet, and weigh thy best parts with thy imperfections.
- If we are ever in doubt what to do, it is a good rule to ask ourselves what we shall wish on the morrow that we had done.
- If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it.
- If you do not expect the unexpected, you will not recognize it when it arrives.
- If you don't understand the cause of the problem — your solution will become part of it.