Wisdom Quotes

"A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal."

"Each man must look to himself to teach him the meaning of life. It is not something discovered: it is something molded."

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

"We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light."

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

"Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures."

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Strategic planning is worthless -- unless there is first a strategic vision.

All things are only transitory.

If the fool would persist in his folly he would become wise.

emember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.

A man is but the product of his thoughts. What he thinks, he becomes.

If you don't stand for something you will fall for anything.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry about the future, or anticipate troubles but to live in the present moment wisely and earnestly.

Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.

What is a sophisticate? He is a man who thinks he can swim better than he can and sometimes he drowns.

"Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who kindly reprove thy faults."