Famous Quotes & Sayings

Hubert H. Humphrey

I believe that each of us can make a difference. That what is wrong can be made right. That people possess the basic wisdom and goodness to govern themselves without conflict.

Hubert H. Humphrey

When we say, 'One nation under God, with liberty and justice for all', we are talking about all people. We either ought to believe it or quit saying it .

Ian Lowe

Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our wisdom lies as much at the mercy of fortune as our possessions do.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

As we grow older, we increase in folly--and in wisdom.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

The desire to be thought clever often prevents a man from becoming so.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth.

Francis Quarles

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Francis Quarles

Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.

Hugh Mackay

It's Australian to do such things because, however uncivilised they may seem, it's human to do them.

Horace Greeley

Wisdom is never dear, provided the article be genuine.

Horace Greeley

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Horace Walpole

To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.

Horace

[So] Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Horace

Wisdom at times is found in folly.

Erich Fromm

We try to evade the question of existence with property, prestige, power, possession, production, fun, and, ultimately, by trying to forget that we- that I- exist. No matter how much he thinks of God or goes to church, or how much he believes in religious ideas , if he, the whole man, is deaf to the question of existence, if he does not have an answer to it, he is marking time, and he lives and dies like one of the million things he produces. He thinks of God, instead of experiencing God.

Erica Jong

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool.

Jawaharlal Nehru

The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.

Herbert Hoover

Wisdom often consists of knowing what to do next.

Evelyn Waugh

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Evelyn Waugh

We possess nothing certainly except the past

Evan Esar

After wisdom comes wit.

Evan Esar

It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.

Jack Kerouac

If critics say your work stinks it's because they want it to stink and they can make it stink by scaring you into conformity with their comfortable little standards. Standards so low that they can no longer be considered "dangerous" but set in place in their compartmental understandings.

Jack Kerouac

The details are the life of it, I insist, say everything on your mind, don’t hold back, don’t analyze or anything as you go along, say it out.

Jack Kerouac

Sal, we gotta go and never stop going 'till we get there.' 'Where we going, man?' 'I don't know but we gotta go.

Jack Kerouac

...we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

Jack Kerouac

There are worse things than being mad.

Jack Kerouac

For the first time in my life the weather was not something that touched me, that caressed me, froze or sweated me, but became me.

Jack Kerouac

Let nature do the freezing and frightening and isolating in this world. let men work and love and fight it off.

Jack Kerouac

I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my life, the strangest moment of all, when I didn't know who I was - I was far away from home, haunted and tired with travel, in a cheap hotel room I'd never seen, hearing the hiss of steam outside, and the creak of the old wood of the hotel, and footsteps upstairs, and all the sad sounds, and I looked at the cracked high ceiling and really didn't know who I was for about fifteen strange seconds. I wasn't scared; I was just somebody else, some stranger, and my whole life was a haunted life, the life of a ghost.

Jack Kerouac

All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road.

Jack Kerouac

They have worries, they're counting the miles, they're thinking about where to sleep tonight, how much money for gas, the weather, how they'll get there - and all the time they'll get there anyway, you see.