Wisdom
526 quotes: 35 by Keith Craft, 491 from other voices.
Other voices on Wisdom
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies.
- Men who are resolved to find a way for themselves, will always find opportunities enough; and if they do not lie ready to their hand, they will make them.
- Mere knowledge is comparatively worthless unless digested into practical wisdom and common sense as applied to the affairs of life.
- Money is a handmaiden, if thou knowest to use it; a mistress, if thou knowest not.
- Money isn't everything ...but it ranks up there with Air and Oxygen.
- Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
- Most people, when they come to you for advice, come to have their own opinions strengthened, not corrected.
- Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
- My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.
- Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears, that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak.
- Nature, to be controlled, must be obeyed.
- Neither the first thought nor the first impression is always right. One must walk all around a thing to see it from every angle, to make the best decision.
- Never be limited by other people’s limited imaginations… If you adopt their attitudes, then the possibility won’t exist because you’ll have already shut it out… You can hear other people’s wisdom, but you’ve got to re-evaluate the world for yourself.
- Never forget what a man has said to you when he was angry. If he has charged you with anything, you had better look it up. Anger is a bow that will shoot sometimes where another feeling will not.
- Never rise to speak till you have something to say; and when you have said it, cease.
- Never risk what you have and need for what you don’t have and don’t need.
- No accidents are so unlucky but that the prudent may draw some advantage from them; nor are there any so lucky but that the imprudent may turn to their prejudice.
- No amount of reading or memorizing will make you successful in life. It is the understanding and application of wise thought which counts.
- No book that will not improve by repeated readings deserves to be read at all.
- No good work whatever can be perfect; and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends of art.
- No man is born wise; but wisdom and virtue require a tutor; though we can easily learn to be vicious without a master.
- No man is wise enough by himself.
- No one of us can do everything, but each of us can do something, and if we work together the aggregate of these somethings will be very considerable.
- Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool.
- Not a mother, nor a father, nor any other relative can do more for the well-being of one than a rightly-directed mind can.
- Not only great happiness but great power arises from doing little things unselfishly, wisely, and perfectly, for life in its totality is made up of little things.
- Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
- Nothing is more terrible than ignorance in action.
- Nothing is so dear and precious as time.
- Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; if he were sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
- Nothing raises the price of a blessing like its removal; whereas, it was its continuance which should have taught us its value.
- One anecdote of a man is worth a volume of biography.
- One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
- One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
- One talent with a will behind it will accomplish more than ten without it.
- Opportunities do not come with their values stamped upon them.
- Ordinary people merely think how they shall ‘spend’ their time; a man of talent tries to ‘use’ it.
- Ordinary people think merely of spending time; a man with any brains, of using it.
- Peace is not the absence of conflict, but the ability to cope with conflict by peaceful means.
- Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.