Wisdom Quotes - Page 128

It is better to listen to a crow that lives in trees than to a learned man who lives only in ideas.

Sometimes when I'm not feeling so happy, I do something to make someone else happy then I find I'm suddenly feeling happy again.

Happiness is the best cosmetic.

Wisdom overcomes fortune.

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself.

The simple power of prayer can save us all kinds of time and trouble if we will ask God to give us wisdom and discernment in our relationships.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The laws of man may bind him in chains or may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy.

Strong ideas, loosely held. That's the path to success.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Thus a new way of finding fluidity will inevitably be imposed on management and labor alike. The profit-sharing, or "progress" sharing union contract is the only possible way of satisfying labor and the consumer without saddling industry with fixed costs that in depression periods can kill off marginal companies like flies.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.

What we do not understand we do not possess.

No time like the present

A fool and his money are quickly parted.

Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it.

A word to the wise is not sufficient if it doesn't make sense.

A wise skepticism is the first attribute of a good critic.

Ah, men do not know how much strength is in poise, That he goes the farthest who goes far enough.

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

No objects of value are worth risking the priceless experience of waking up one more day.

Ah, it was a fine night, a warm night, a wine-drinking night, a moony night, and a night to hug your girl and talk and spit and be heavengoing.