Famous Quotes

"Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance."

H. L. Mencken 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 H. L. Mencken

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

• "Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age."

• "Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward, and you will have the truth about him."

• "Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage."

• "A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in."