Famous Quotes

"We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started."

Henry Ward Beecher 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 Henry Ward Beecher

• "Every artist dips his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures."

• "The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things."

• "To array a man's will against his sickness is the supreme art of medicine."

• "Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments."

• "Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one."