Quotes about Wisdom
The scholar is that man who must take up into himself all the ability of the time, all the contributions of the past, all the hopes of the future. He must be an university of knowledges.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
— George Bernard Shaw
As time passes, you will look back with twenty-twenty hindsight, and you will say, 'Thank God He did not answer my prayers' or 'Thank God He answered my prayers,' whichever the case may be.
— Greg Laurie
Invest time that will compound forever.
— Henry B. Eyring
Disappointment is just the chance to start once more, this time all the more insightfully.
— Henry Ford
Sin always seems 'good, and pleasant, and desirable,' at the time of commission.
— JC Ryle
Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
Resist the need to be 'right' all the time or to always have the last word.
— Joyce Meyer
Let time that makes you homely make you sage.
— Thomas Parnell
Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
— Patrick Lencioni
All the king's horses and all the king's men can't put the past together again. So let's remember: Don't try to saw sawdust.
— Dale Carnegie
There is more to be learnt from every page of David Hume than from the collected philosophical works of Hegel, Herbart, and Schleiermacher are taken together.
— Arthur Schopenhauer