Wisdom Quotes Wishes and Status Messages - Page 7

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

All life is an experiment.

Through our great good fortune, in our youth our hearts were touched with fire. It was given to us to learn at the outset that life is a profound and passionate thing.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

There is great treasure there behind our skull and this is true about all of us. This little treasure has great, great powers, and I would say we only have learned a very, very small part of what it can do.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower... hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour...

The years teach much which the days never knew.

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise.

The real voyage of discovery consists of not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.

An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

The perfection of wisdom and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

All human beings, by nature, desire to know.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.

Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.

They that will not be counseled, cannot be helped. If you do not hear reason she will rap you on the knuckles.

If money is your hope for independence you will never have it. The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience, and ability.

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.

Though a good motive cannot sanction a bad action, a bad motive will always vitiate a good action. In common and trivial matters we may act without motives, but in momentous ones the most careful deliberation is wisdom.

The wise man bridges the gap by laying out the path by means of which he can get from where he is to where he wants to go.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Chance favors only those who court her.