Quotes about Wisdom
If people knew the story of their lives how many would then elect to live them? People
— Cormac McCarthy
She was old; millions of years old, she felt.
— DH Lawrence
Apparently one grows more carnal and more mortal as one grows older. Only youth has a taste of immortality--
— DH Lawrence
She had to live. It is useless to quarrel with one's bread and butter. And to expect a great deal out of life is puerile.
— DH Lawrence
Wisdom has reference only to the past. The future remains for ever an infinite field for mistakes.
— DH Lawrence
Learning was the only distinction to which she thought to aspire.
— DH Lawrence
It is far, far better to read one book six times, at intervals, than to read six several books. Because if a certain book can call you to read it six times, it will be a deeper and deeper experience each time, and will enrich the whole soul, emotional and mental. Whereas six books read once only are merely an accumulation of superficial interests , the burdensome accumulation of modern days, quantity without real value.
— DH Lawrence
Let's not allow ourselves to be upset by small things we should despise and forget. Remember Life is too short to be little.
— Dale Carnegie
John Wanamaker, founder of the stores that bear his name, once confessed: I learned thirty years ago that it is foolish to scold. I have enough trouble overcoming my own limitations without fretting over the fact that God has not seen fit to distribute evenly the gift of intelligence.
— Dale Carnegie
Emerson said: "Every man I meet is my superior in some way. In that, I learn of him.
— Dale Carnegie
The reason why rivers and seas receive the homage of a hundred mountain streams is that they keep below them. Thus they are able to reign over all the mountain streams. So the sage, wishing to be above men, putteth himself below them; wishing to be before them, he putteth himself behind them. Thus, though his place be above men, they do not feel his weight; though his place be before them, they do not count it an injury.
— Dale Carnegie
The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?
— Dale Carnegie