Famous Quotes

"It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories."

Georg C. Lichtenberg on Wisdom

More quotes about Wisdom

• "Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

  Ralph Waldo Emerson on Wisdom

• "Experience is not what happens to you it's what you do with what happens to you."

  Aldous Huxley on Wisdom

• "For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone."

  Audrey Hepburn on Wisdom

• "By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest Second, by imitation, which is easiest and third by experience, which is the bitterest."

  Confucius on Wisdom

• "If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it."

  Michael Jordan on Wisdom

More quotes by Georg C. Lichtenberg

• "We accumulate our opinions at an age when our understanding is at its weakest."

• "Even truth needs to be clad in new garments if it is to appeal to a new age."

• "We cannot remember too often that when we observe nature, and especially the ordering of nature, it is always ourselves alone we are observing."

• "I cannot say whether things will get better if we change what I can say is they must change if they are to get better."

• "Never undertake anything for which you wouldn't have the courage to ask the blessings of heaven."