Wisdom Quotes

"One should as a rule respect public opinion in so far as is necessary to avoid starvation."

"Wrong focus will mean futile effort."

"Intelligence is the sense of proportion."

"The dignity of movement of an iceberg is due only to one-ninth of it being above water."

"We must choose, and we must choose wisely."

"The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas simultaneously."

"The most important thing is to focus on what truly matters."

"The mind of a man may be likened to a mirror."

"The dead cannot be made alive by the same mistakes that killed them."

"The ultimate currency is wisdom."

"The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise."

"Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better."

"A wise woman wishes to be no one's enemy; a wise woman refains from none but herself."

"You alone have the capacity to know who you are."

"Expectation is the ground of disappointment."

"The ability to understand what it means to be alive is the greatest achievement."

"Learning to forgive myself has been one of life's greatest gifts."

"Whenever you make a choice you turn down a hall where you enter a room."

"Knowledge without wisdom is incomplete."

"A cynic is someone who knows the price of everything but the value of nothing."

"The question is not what we can afford, but what we cannot afford to lose."

"The greatest discovery is understanding yourself."

"I do believe in simplicity. It is astonishing how many tricks the old dogs know."

"If something is not worth doing it is not worth doing well."

"I am a very progressive person and I think that you cannot be progressive without understanding."

"Forgive me my nonsense as I also forgive the nonsense of those that think they talk sense."

"The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected."

"A mother's intuition is the voice of accumulated human experience."

"We dance round in a ring and suppose, but the secret sits in the middle and knows."

"The road less traveled may be less traveled for a good reason."