Quotes | Wisdom
It’s not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
The people who fight fire with fire, usually end up with ashes.
The axe forgets, but the tree remembers.
The tired wisdom of knowing that what goes around eventually comes around.
You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.
There is some wisdom in taking a gloomy view, in looking upon the world as a kind of Hell, and in confining one’s efforts to securing a little room that shall not be exposed to the fire.
If we suspect that a man is lying, we should pretend to believe him; for then he becomes bold and assured, lies more vigorously, and is unmasked.
Putting is like wisdom – partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
You cannot teach a crab to walk straight.
A man can learn wisdom even from a foe.
That man is sharp who can say what he wants in a minimum of words.
You should not decide until you have heard what both have to say.
Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever.
Even from enemies much can be learned by the intelligent, More in fact than from our friends.
Do not take a blind guide.
The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Meanings are not determined by situations, but we determine ourselves by the meanings we give to situations.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
One sometimes finds what one is not looking for.
Never put off till tomorrow the fun you can have today.
Several excuses are always less convincing than one.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
He who hath many friends hath none.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.
Liars when they speak the truth are not believed.
Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.
It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.
A friend to all is a friend to none.
Don’t be too assuming, it doesn’t get you anywhere.
Wisdom is the fruit of a balanced development.
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Words build bridges into unexplored regions.
Always be listening and learning.
If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
When you seek advice, do not withhold any facts from the person whose advice you seek.
You can’t have a better today and tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time.
A man without ethics is a wild beast loosed upon this world.
We are all born mad, some remain so.
Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
Unless one is able to live fully in the present, the future is a hoax.
Much wants more and loses all.
Who acts in haste repent at leisure.
Destroy the seed of evil, or it will grow up to your ruin.
Do not attempt to hide things which cannot be hidden.
The quarrels of friends are the opportunities of foes.
I can’t be friends with a man who blows hot and cold with the same breath.
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
Better to starve free than be a fat slave.
