Quotes about Wisdom
It is important early in life to acquire the power of reading sense wherever you happen to be.
- CS Lewis
We who have been true readers all our life fully realize the enormous of our being which we owe to authors.
- CS Lewis
When you have got a thing where you want, it is a good thing to leave it where it is.
- Winston Churchill
A leader is bestWhen people barely know he existsOf a good leader, who talks little, When his work is done, his aim fulfilled, They will say, "We did this ourselves.
- Lao Tzu
Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants.
- Edmund Burke
The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.
- Elias Canetti
When you get before great people you don't talk a lot, you ask questions
- Myles Munroe
To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.
- Khalil Gibran
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw
Inner guidance is heard like soft music in the night by those who have learned to listen.
- Vernon Howard