Quotes about Wisdom
One must learn that which is necessary, and not simply what one wants.
- Paulo Coelho
Words are life set down on paper.
- Paulo Coelho
Life is not a holiday, but an education. And the most important lesson we can learn is how to love. How to love better.
- Paulo Coelho
Blessed are those who are not afraid to admit that they don't know something
- Paulo Coelho
Wage of rage of revenge ain't worth it. What's the point of being enslaved by a slave?
- Anonymous
A man who called everyone a damn fool is like a man who damns the weather. He only shows that he is not adapted to his environment, not that the environment is wrong.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.
- Stephen Covey
Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.
- George Washington
Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.
- Joseph Addison
The black man in Africa had mastered the arts and sciences. He knew the course of the stars in the universe before the man up in Europe knew that the earth wasn't flat.
- Malcolm X
It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child.
- Pablo Picasso
The art of avoiding extremes is an art that is drawn on the canvas of maturity and painted with the abstract strokes of many experiences.
- Bishop TD Jakes