Famous Quotes About wisdom

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.