Famous Quotes

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

Josh Billings 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 Josh Billings

• "I think when the full horror of being fifty hits you, you should stay home and have a good cry."

• "The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust."

• "The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way."

• "One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs."

• "The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout."