Famous Quotes & Sayings

Baltasar Gracian

Wisdom is immortal. She can wait forever, but you cannot.

Baltasar Gracian

The sage has one advantage: he is immortal. If this is not his century, many others will be.

Baltasar Gracian

Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.

Baltasar Gracian

Knowledge without wisdom is double folly.

Baltasar Gracian

Some would be sages if they did not believe they were so already.

Baltasar Gracian

Know how to ask. There is nothing more difficult for some people, nor for others, easier.

Baltasar Gracian

Be first the master of yourself

Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Anthony Trollope

There's nothing like going on with a thing.

Anthony Trollope

Late hours, nocturnal cigars, and midnight drinkings, pleasurable though they may be, consume too quickly the free-flowing lamps of youth, and are fatal at once to the husbanded candle-ends of age.

Desiderius Erasmus

In the kingdom of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.

Desiderius Erasmus

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

Dean Koontz

What most people find important, you do not. This is Wisdom. To what you believe is important, you are ready to give your mind, heart, and soul. This is Grace.

Daniel Goleman

When I say manage emotions, I only mean the really distressing, incapacitating emotions. Feeling emotions is what makes life rich. You need your passions.

Daniel Handler

Assumptions are dangerous things to make, and like all dangerous things to make - bombs, for instance, or strawberry shortcake - if you make even the tiniest mistake you can find yourself in terrible trouble.

Clarence Day

Will and wisdom are both mighty leaders. Our times worship will.

Elizabeth Janeway

I am not sure how many "sins" I would recognize in the world. Some would surely be defused by changed circumstances. But I can imagine none that is more irredeemably sinful than the betrayal, the exploitation, of the young by those who should care for them.

Elizabeth I

There is small disproportion betwixt a fool who useth not wit because he hath it not and him that useth it not when it should avail him.

Eli Broad

There is no substitute for knowledge. To this day, I read three newspapers a day. It is impossible to read a paper without being exposed to ideas. And ideas - more than money - are the real currency for success.

B. C. Forbes

Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education.

Arthur Helps

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering.

Bayard Taylor

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

The Prophet's words were true; The mouth of Ali is the golden door Of Wisdom." When his friends to Ali bore These words, he smiled and said: "And should they ask The same until my dying day, the task Were easy; for the stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible.

Bayard Taylor

By wisdom wealth is won; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none.

Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.

Bruce Springsteen

You've got to be able to hold a lot of contradictory ideas in your mind without going nuts. I feel like to do my job right, when I walk out on stage I've got to feel like it's the most important thing in the world. Also I've got to feel like, well, it's only rock and roll. Somehow you've got to believe both of those things.

Brian Tracy

Your earning ability today is largely dependent upon your knowledge, skill and your ability to combine that knowledge and skill in such a way that you contribute value for which customers are going to pay.

Brian Tracy

You are a living magnet. What you attract into your life is in in harmony with your dominant thoughts.

Brad Pitt

There's no right. There's no wrong. There's only popular opinion.

Juvenal

Hold it the greatest sin to prefer existence to honour, and for the sake of life to lose the reasons for living.

Juvenal

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [Lat., Victrix fortunae sapientia.]