Quotes On Wisdom

I never give advice unless someone asks me for it. One thing I've learned, and possibly the only advice I have to give, is to not be that person giving out unsolicited advice based on your own personal experience.

Now that I'm older, I can see that everyone was my teacher.

Anger is my biggest enemy in life.

Man is not meant to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.

Listening never gets you in trouble, but talking can.

I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know that life is a complex matter.

Our failures are those who do not learn these things in the years they are here.

The point is not that I don't recognise bad people when I see them — I grant you I may quite well be taken in by them — the point is that I know a good person when I see one.

Hatred is so much easier to win than love - and so much harder to get rid of.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.

I never desired to please the rabble. What pleased them, I did not learn; and what I knew was far removed from their understanding.