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Wisdom Quotes
Source: The Power of Leadership
“Communication leads to community, that is, to understanding, intimacy and mutual valuing.”
“It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.”
Source: Love and will
“Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.”
“It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.”
Source: Aperçus: The Aphorisms of Mignon McLaughlin
“I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had.”
“He who has never failed somewhere, that man can not be great.”
Source: Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne: Letters, Diaries, Reminiscences and Extensive Biographies: Autobiographical Writings of the Renowned American Novelist, Author of
“The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.”
Source: Prejudices: Third Series
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
Source: A little book in C major
Source: Minority Report
“Pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
“The biggest human temptation is... to settle for too little.”
Source: No Man Is an Island
Source: The Seven Storey Mountain
“We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.”
“There are no ordinary moments.”
Source: Way of the Peaceful Warrior: A Book That Changes Lives
“Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.”
Source: Oration on the Dignity of Man
“To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.”
Source: Debauched Proverbs and Other Miznerisms of Addison Mizner and Wilson Mizner
“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.”
“Disguise our bondage as we will, 'Tis woman, woman, rules us still.”
Source: Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Moore (Illustrated)
“A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”
Source: The Haunted Bookshop
“There is only one rule for being a good talker - learn to listen.”
Source: Safety pins: and other essays
“People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.”
“When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.”
Source: My First Summer in the Sierra: Illustrated Edition
“How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.”
Source: Two fables
Source: Re-Inventing the Corporation
“No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.”
Source: The World in Falseface
“The policy of being too cautious is the greatest risk of all.”
Source: Jawaharlal Nehru's speeches
“Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.”