Quotes about Wisdom
The wisest use of American strength is to advance freedom.
— George W. Bush
It will be found an unjust and unwise jealousy to deprive a man of his natural liberty upon the supposition he may abuse it.
— George Washington
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair the rest is in the hands of God.
— George Washington
We ought not to look back unless it is to derive useful lessons from past errors, and for the purpose of profiting by dear-brought experience.
— George Washington
Worry is the intrest paid by those who borrow trouble.
— George Washington
How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving, and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because some day in life you will have been all of these.
— George Washington Carver
Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
— Oprah Winfrey
It is often better not to see an insult, than to avenge it.
— Seneca
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
I can find my biography in every fable that I read.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Grow up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It is unjust to claim the privileges of age and retain the playthings of childhood.
— Samuel Johnson