723 quotes found
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“Silence is true wisdom's best reply.”
“Honesty is the best policy.”
“One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.”
“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.”
“Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
“Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.”
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.”
“Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.”
“Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.”
“During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered...”
“What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times....”
“Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.”
“It is amazing that the wisdom of the chattering class to the Republicans is always, always, always 'Surrender your principles and agree with the Democrats.' That's been true for my entire lifetime.”
“What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part.”
“Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the pow...”
“It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have him...”
“Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out t...”
“The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.”
