Famous Quotes

"No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man."

John Selden 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 John Selden

• "Old friends are best."

• "No man is the wiser for his learning it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon but wit and wisdom are born with a man."

• "Of all actions of a man's life, his marriage does least concern other people, yet of all actions of our life tis most meddled with by other people."