Famous Quotes & Sayings

Mason Cooley

My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.

Mason Cooley

Wisdom knows when to return death's embrace.

Mason Cooley

Wisdom has lost repute because it so often applies to a state of affairs that no longer exists.

Mason Cooley

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.

Menander

It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders.

Mencius

If you love men and they are unfriendly, look into your love; if you rule men and they are unruly, look into your wisdom; if you are courteous to them and they do not respond, look into your courtesy. If what you do is vain, always seek within.

Teri Garr

You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.

Theodore Roosevelt

The very reason why we object to state ownership, that it puts a stop to individual initiative and to the healthy development of personal responsibility, is the reason why we object to an unsupervised, unchecked monopolistic control in private hands. We urge control and supervision by the nation as an antidote to the movement for state socialism. Those who advocate total lack of regulation, those who advocate lawlessness in the business world, themselves give the strongest impulse to what I believe would be the deadening movement toward unadulterated state socialism.

Theodore Roosevelt

I care not what others think of what I do, but I care very much about what I think of what I do! That is character!

Theodore Roosevelt

We need the iron qualities that go with true manhood. We need the positive virtues of resolution, of courage, of indomitable will, of power to do without shrinking the rough work that must always be done.

Theodore Roosevelt

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

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.

Morihei Ueshiba

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Marcel Proust

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

Marcel Proust

Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

Joseph Addison

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.

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.

James Russell Lowell

For only by unlearning Wisdom comes.

James Russell Lowell

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Laurence Sterne

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Laurence Sterne

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Friedrich August von Hayek

Ever since the beginning of modern science, the best minds have recognized that "the range of acknowledged ignorance will grow with the advance of science." Unfortunately, the popular effect of this scientific advance has been a belief, seemingly shared by many scientists, that the range of our ignorance is steadily diminishing and that we can therefore aim at more comprehensive and deliberate control of all human activities. It is for this reason that those intoxicated by the advance of knowledge so often become the enemies of freedom.

Friedrich August von Hayek

It is only because the majority opinion will always be opposed by some that our knowledge and understanding progress. In the process by which opinion is formed, it is very probable that, by the time any view becomes a majority view, it is no longer the best view: somebody will already have advanced beyond the point which the majority have reached. It is because we do not yet know which of the many competing new opinions will prove itself the best that we wait until it has gained sufficient support.

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.