Quotes about Wisdom
Here is a method that deserves a whole chapter. Read history! Try to get the viewpoint of ten thousand years—and see how trivial YOUR troubles are, in terms of eternity!
— Dale Carnegie
There is only one way on God's green footstool that the past can be constructive; and that is by calmly analysing our past mistakes and profiting by them-and forgetting them.
— Dale Carnegie
As I look back now I wonder how I was ever able to sell anything. I lost years of my life in scrapping and arguing. I keep my mouth shut now. It pays.
— Dale Carnegie
Alexander Pope: Men must be taught as if you taught them not And things unknown proposed as things forgot. Over three hundred years ago Galileo said: You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him to find it within himself.
— Dale Carnegie
I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.
— Dale Carnegie
I am ashamed to realize that I never really learned to live until I feared I was going to die.
— Dale Carnegie
There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Dale Carnegie
Logan Pearsall Smith packed a lot of wisdom into a few words when he said: "There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.
— Dale Carnegie
You were not born with judgment. That comes only with experience
— Dale Carnegie
Carnegie wanted to praise his assistants even on his tombstone. He wrote an epitaph for himself which read: "Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
— Dale Carnegie
Man is not made to understand life, but to live it.
— Dale Carnegie
Here lies one who knew how to get around him men who were cleverer than himself.
— Dale Carnegie