Quotes about Wisdom
A good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser.
— Mortimer Adler
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never slap a man who's chewing tobacco. Never kick a cow chip on a hot day. Never miss a good chance to shut up.
— Will Rogers
Sometimes the truth hurts. And sometimes it feels real good.
— Henry Rollins
You will hear more good things on the outside of a stagecoach from London to Oxford than if you were to pass a twelvemonth with the undergraduates, or heads of colleges, of that famous university.
— William Hazlitt
Cheese, wine, and a friend must be old to be good.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
To reach something good it is very useful to have gone astray, and thus acquire experience.
— Teresa of Avila
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
— George Bernard Shaw
A good leader is always looking for people smarter and more experienced than they are. If you are the smartest one in the room, then you are stupid.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Cicero
Don't waste a good mistake, learn from it.
— Robert Kiyosaki
If a good person does you wrong, act as though you had not noticed it. They will make note of this and not remain in your debt long.
— Dag Hammarskjold