Browsing Quotes With Tag: wisdom (69)
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Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials
Speaker: Lin YutangPosted: 10 Apr 2010 at 7:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
He who knows others is learned;
He who knows himself is wiseSpeaker: Lao TzuPosted: 20 Mar 2010 at 5:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“But I will say no more about it. Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish. And yet it also pleases me and seems right that what is of value and wisdom to one man seems nonsense to another.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:28 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
“Let me warn you, you who are thirsty for knowledge, against the thicket of opinions and the conflict of words. Opinions mean nothing. they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.”
Speaker: Hermann HesseSource: SiddharthaPosted: 01 Nov 2009 at 6:15 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Luck never made a man wise.
Speaker: SenecaPosted: 04 Sep 2009 at 8:52 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.
Speaker: Rachel CarsonPosted: 28 Jul 2009 at 11:21 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Speaker: Bertrand RussellPosted: 20 Mar 2009 at 7:13 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
Speaker: PlatoPosted: 19 Mar 2009 at 9:01 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it – this is knowledge.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:32 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Speaker: ConfuciusPosted: 18 Mar 2009 at 6:27 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Say oh wise man how you have come to such knowledge? Because I was never ashamed to confess my ignorance and ask others.
Speaker: Johann Gottfried Von HerderPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 1:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Speaker: George Bernard ShawPosted: 28 Nov 2008 at 12:56 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.
Speaker: Chinese proverbSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:45 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
Speaker: Robert J. SawyerSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:23 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.
Speaker: William of OccamSource: 4 Hour WorkweekPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 8:09 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
When youth comes to age for advice he receives the wisdom of years. But too often does youth think that age knows only the wisdom of days that are gone, and therefore profits not.
Speaker: George S. ClasonPosted: 26 Aug 2008 at 7:16 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Speaker: Douglas AdamsPosted: 23 Aug 2008 at 10:35 AMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
Just because we have taken one step down a wrong road is no reason why we have to take two.
Speaker: Richard L. EvansPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:18 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
I don’t think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Speaker: Abraham LincolnPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:10 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment! -
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
Speaker: Francis BaconPosted: 21 Aug 2008 at 4:08 PMComments: None... Be the first to comment!