Famous Quotes

"To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."

Plutarch 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 Plutarch

• "The wildest colts make the best horses."

• "What we achieve inwardly will change outer reality."

• "I don't need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod my shadow does that much better."

• "Courage consists not in hazarding without fear but being resolutely minded in a just cause."

• "Courage stands halfway between cowardice and rashness, one of which is a lack, the other an excess of courage."