quotes

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together to hurt you to the heart; the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

For many persons, law appears to be black magic--an obscure domain that can be fathomed only by the professional initiated into the mysteries.

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

Praise is the hire of virtue.

Far more crucial than what we know or do not know is what we do not want to know. One often obtains a clue to a person's nature by discovering the reasons for his or her imperviousness to certain impressions.

Patriotism is when love of your own people comes first; nationalism, when hate for people other than your own comes first.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

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

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

I've failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed.

Every generation has to earn its own FREEDOM.

If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. Then quit. There's no use being a damn fool about it.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.

There are two things to aim at in life; first to get what you want, and after that to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind has achieved the second.