Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
Other voices on Wisdom
- It is the slowest pulsation which is the most vital. The hero will then know how to wait, as well as to make haste. All good abides with him who waiteth wisely.
- It is trying to carry too many baskets that breaks most eggs in this country.
- It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- It is well to cure, but better to prevent a Distemper. The first shows more Skill, but the last more Wisdom.
- It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.
- It isn’t so much having a lot of brilliant decisions, it’s just not having some terrible ones.
- It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
- It needs some skill to find out difficulties, but more to find a way out of them.
- It was a saying of his that education was an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.
- It's good to learn from your mistakes. It's better to learn from other people's mistakes.
- It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
- Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
- Judge a tree from its fruit, not from its leaves.
- Just keep in mind: the more we value things outside our control, the less control we have.
- Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Knowing what you don’t know is more useful than being brilliant.
- Knowledge and human power are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect.
- Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Knowledge dwells in heads replete with thoughts of other men; Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own.
- Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Knowledge is more than equivalent to force. The master of mechanicks laughs at strength.
- Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it.
- Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- Knowledge is the acquiring of facts, understanding is the interpreting of facts, wisdom the application.
- Knowledge is the treasure, but judgment is the treasurer of a wise man.
- Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Knowledge without transformation is not wisdom.
- Learn from the mistakes of others. You can’t live long enough to make them all yourself.
- Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.
- Let other people’s hindsight become your foresight.
- Let your daily wisdom of life be in making a good use of the opportunities given you.
- Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
- Life has taught me the wisdom of moving toward what scares me.
- Life, like some cities, is full of blind alleys, leading nowhere; the great art is to keep out of them.
- Lost time is never found again; and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
- Love alone is wisdom, love alone is power; and where love seems to fail, it is where self has stepped between and dulled the potency of its rays.
- Man, if he compare himself with all he can see, is at the zenith of his power; but if he compare himself with all he can conceive, he is at the nadir of his weakness.
- Many receive advice, few profit by it.
- May our adversities make us strong. May our victories make us wise. May our actions make us proud.
- Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.