Quotes for Wisdom

I have a very experience-dense reality. I've experienced so much stuff in just five years. I've experienced more in five years than most people do in their whole life. Wisdom comes from experience, in my opinion.

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There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Archimedes

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

Epictetus

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Omar N. Bradley

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

Max de Pree

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Doug Larson

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

Catherine the Great

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

Orison Swett Marden

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Torquato Tasso

First appearance deceives many.

Ovid

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Tom Wilson

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Lucretius

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Arthur Helps

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

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Harold S. Geneen

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Mason Cooley

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

Johann Georg Hamann