Famous Quotes

"To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

Herman Melville 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 Herman Melville

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Art is the objectification of feeling."

• "To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living."

• "Old age is always wakeful as if, the longer linked with life, the less man has to do with aught that looks like death."

• "Faith, like a jackal, feeds among the tombs, and even from these dead doubts she gathers her most vital hope."