Famous Quotes & Sayings

Theodore Roosevelt

Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.

Theodore Roosevelt

Courtesy is as much a mark of a gentleman as courage.

Theodore Roosevelt

If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

Margaret Drabble

Perhaps the rare and simple pleasure of being seen for what one is compensates for the misery of being it.

Margaret Fuller

I know of no inquiry which the impulses of man suggests that is forbidden to the resolution of man to pursue.

Michael Azerrad

The online musical universe has become Balkanized, with many sites focusing on minute niches. That works well for reaching very specific demographics, which is wonderful for advertising, but it flies in the face of the common wisdom that people's tastes have become more diverse as music of any description has become a mouse-click away.

Randy Pausch

The questions are always more important than the answers.

Eric Hoffer

One of the chief differences between an adult and a juvenile is that the adult knows when he is an ass while the juvenile never does.

Eric Hoffer

The wisdom of others remains dull till it is writ over with our own blood. We are essentially apart from the world; it bursts into our consciousness only when it sinks its teeth and nails into us.

James Anthony Froude

Justice without wisdom is impossible.

Helen Hayes

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

Joy and sorrow are the light and shade of life; without light and shade no picture is clear.

Henry David Thoreau

A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom.

Henry David Thoreau

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Plautus

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

Plautus

He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense.

Plautus

He gains wisdom in a happy way, who gains it by another's experience. [Lat., Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit.]

Plautus

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

Plautus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Plato

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Plato

Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer.

Plato

They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.

Plato

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Plato

Thinking is the soul talking to itself.

Philip Larkin

Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.

Martin Seligman

I believe that traditional wisdom is incomplete.

Leonardo da Vinci

If you put on more garments, the cold cannot reach you. Similarly, increase your patience and concentration and even great injuries cannot vex your mind.

Lance Henriksen

We are all guilty in someone's eyes. More so our own.

John Updike

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

John Updike

You know how it is with fathers, you never escape the idea that maybe after all they're right.

John Ray

What's good for the goose is good for the gander.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.