Famous Quotes & Sayings

Winston Churchill

We are all worms. But I believe that I am a glow-worm.

Winston Churchill

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

Saint Augustine

An apt and true reply was given to Alexander the Great by a pirate who had been seized. For when that king had asked the man what he meant by keeping hostile possession of the sea, he answered with bold pride. "What thou meanest by seizing the whole earth; but because I do it with a petty ship, I am called a robber, whilst thou who dost it with a great fleet art styled emperor."

Saint Augustine

Humility is the foundation of all the other virtues hence, in the soul in which this virtue does not exist there cannot be any other virtue except in mere appearance.

Xenophanes

...for our wisdom is better than the strength of men or of horses. ... nor is it right to prefer strength to excellent wisdom. For if there should be in the city [any athlete whose skill] is honoured more than strength ... the city would not on that account be any better governed.

Wilson Mizner

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

Wilson Mizner

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

Will Rogers

The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation. I never yet talked to the man who wanted to save time who could tell me what he was going to do with the time he saved.

Will Rogers

There is one guaranteed formula for failure, and that is to try to please everyone.

Will Rogers

It's not what you pay a man, but what he costs you that counts.

Zora Neale Hurston

Learning without wisdom is a load of books on a donkey's back.

Zhuangzi

The birth of a man is the birth of his sorrow. The longer he lives, the more stupid he becomes, because his anxiety to avoid unavoidable death becomes more and more acute. What bitterness! He lives for what is always out of reach! His thirst for survival in the future makes him incapable of living in the present.

Zhuangzi

True depth of understanding is wide and steady, Shallow understanding is lazy and wandering, Words of wisdom are precise and clear

Zhuangzi

The hidden so-called scholars of old did not hide themselves and refuse to be seen. They did not close the door on their words and refuse to let them out. They did not shut away their wisdom and refuse to share it. But those times were all haywire. If it had been possible for them to act, they could have done great things, bringing all to Oneness without any sign of doing so. However, the times were not favorable and it was not possible, so they put down deep roots, remained still and waited. this was the Tao by which they survived.

Zhuangzi

When people do not ignore what they should ignore, but ignore what they should not ignore, this is known as ignorance.

William Hazlitt

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

William Hazlitt

Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves.

Wendell Berry

It's the impeded stream that sings

Warren Beatty

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Warren Buffett

I do not believe in inheriting your position in society based on which womb you come from... I think a rich person should leave his children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.

Warren Buffett

The time to buy stocks is consistently over time. You should never buy your investments with the idea, 'I have to get a certain return.' You should look at the best return possible and learn to live with that. But you should not try to make your investments earn what you feel you need. It doesn't work that way. The stock doesn't know you own it.

Wayne Dyer

You must become the producer, director and actor in the unfolding story of your life.

William Blake

When the doors of perception are cleansed, men will see things as they truly are, infinite.

William Blake

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, Or Love in a golden bowl?

William Blake

To generalize is to be an idiot.

William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

William Blake

You never know what is enough unless you know what is more than enough.

Wernher von Braun

Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

Wallis Simpson

I was a long time learning that wisdom and experience are things apart; that to taste life is not to be confused with understanding what life is really all about.

Wallace Stegner

Wisdom. . .is knowing what you have to accept.

Samuel Smiles

Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.

Samuel Smiles

The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.

Samuel Richardson

The first step in achieving prosperity and wealth is learning to appreciate what you already have.