All Quotes By Tag: Wisdom

“Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.”

“But what if I make a mistake?’ Will asked.Gilan threw back his head and laughed. ‘A mistake? One mistake? You should be so lucky. You’ll make dozens! I made four or five on my first day alone! Of course you’ll make mistakes. Just don’t make any of them twice. If you do mess things up, don’t try to hide it. Don’t try to rationalize it. Recognize it and admit it and learn from it. We never stop learning, none of us.”

“You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.”

“I used to think the worst thing in life is to end up all alone. It’s not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.”

“It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.”

“Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

“In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of thecat, although in this case there were three determinate states the catcould be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”

“There is a wisdom of the head, and… there is a wisdom of the heart.”

“You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself.”

“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”

“The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.”

“wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.”

“Recognizing power in another does not diminish your own.”