Famous Quotes

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."

William Ralph Inge 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 William Ralph Inge

• "Whoever marries the spirit of this age will find himself a widower in the next."

• "Literature flourishes best when it is half a trade and half an art."

• "The aim of education is the knowledge not of facts but of values."

• "True faith is belief in the reality of absolute values."

• "The enemies of freedom do not argue they shout and they shoot."