Famous Quotes

"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."

Thomas B. Macaulay 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 Thomas B. Macaulay

• "We hold that the most wonderful and splendid proof of genius is a great poem produced in a civilized age."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "The object of oratory alone in not truth, but persuasion."

• "The English Bible - a book which, if everything else in our language should perish, would alone suffice to show the whole extent of its beauty and power."

• "Many politicians are in the habit of laying it down as a self-evident proposition that no people ought to be free till they are fit to use their freedom. The maxim is worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go into the water till he had learned to swim."