Wisdom Quotes P7
- If you only look at the past you have your back turned away from your future.
- What man does not understand, he fears & what he fears, he destroys
- The one whose judgment counts most in your life is the one looking back at you through the mirror
- What most people need to learn in life is how to love people & use things instead of using people & loving things.
- Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
- Beware of the man who knows the answer before he understands the question.
- An expert knows all the answers – if you ask the right questions.
- The hardest work in the world is that which should have been done yesterday.
- How to win a case in court: If the law is on your side, pound on the law; if the facts are on your side, pound on the facts; if neither is on your side, pound on the table.
- Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery.
- Any new venture goes through the following stages: enthusiasm, complication, disillusionment, search for the guilty, punishment of the innocent, and decoration of those who did nothing.
- Mankind’s worst enemy is fear of work.
- Behind every successful man there are usually a lot of unsuccessful years.
- The written word can be erased – not so with the spoken word.
- When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words.
- One thing you can give and still keep is your word.
- It is with a word as with an arrow – once let it loose and it does not return.
- Wise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
- You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
- The human race is faced with a cruel choice: work or daytime television.
- In every fat book there is a thin book trying to get out.
- A novel is a piece of prose of a certain length with something wrong with it.
- Minds are like parachutes – they only function when open.
- On Thanksgiving Day all over America, families sit down to dinner at the same moment – halftime.
- Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.
- Prejudice is the reasoning of fools.
- Prayer doesn’t change things. It changes people and they change things.
- He who ashamed of his poverty would be equally proud of his wealth.
- Protest long enough that you are right, and you will be wrong. It is easier to admire hard work if you don’t do it.
- No poet sings because he must sing. At least no great poet does. A great poet sings because he chooses to sing.
- Religion is a man using a divining rod. Philosophy is a man using a pick and shovel.
- If you get up one time more than you fall, you will make it through.
- Peace may cost as much as war, but it is a better buy.
- Peace won by the compromise of principles is a short-lived achievement.
- This life is a test. It is only a test. Had this been an actual life, you would have received further instructions as to what to do and where to go.
- Never argue with a fool. Listeners can’t tell which is which.
- If voting changed anything, they’d make it illegal.
- Too many people run out of ideas long before they run out of words.
- It isn’t easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice.
- “What made the deepest impression upon you?” inquired a friend one day of Lincoln, “when you stood in the presence of the Falls of Niagara, the greatest of natural wonders?” —- “The thing that stuck me most forcibly when I saw the Falls,” Lincoln responded with the characteristic deliberation, “was where in the world did all that water come from?”
