Famous Quotes

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

Walter Lippmann 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 Walter Lippmann

• "The genius of a good leader is to leave behind him a situation which common sense, without the grace of genius, can deal with successfully."

• "The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on."

• "Most men, after a little freedom, have preferred authority with the consoling assurances and the economy of effort it brings."

• "Private property was the original source of freedom. It still is its main ballpark."

• "It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most."