Famous Quotes

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

John Burroughs 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 John Burroughs

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "If we take science as our sole guide, if we accept and hold fast that alone which is verifiable, the old theology must go."

• "To me - old age is always ten years older than I am."

• "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else."

• "A man can get discouraged many times but he is not a failure until he begins to blame somebody else and stops trying."