Monday, 19 September 2011

WisDom Quotes and Sayings (3)

The real secret of patience is to find something to do in the meantime.
------------
When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange - my youth.
~Sara Teasdale
------------
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.  ~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book of Science and Nature Quotations, 1988
------------
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.  ~Juvenal, Satires
------------
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.  ~Author Unknown
------------
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.  ~John Buchan
------------
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
-----------
Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.
Joan Rivers
-----------
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
-----------
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
-----------
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
----------
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
----------
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
----------
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
-----------
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
------------
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
------------
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler
----------
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
----------
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
-----------
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
-----------
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury
-----------
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
-----------
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
-----------
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
------------
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
-------------
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
-------------
Page:- (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12)


 

No comments:

Post a Comment