Wisdom Quotes

"This is why you were chosen. Because a strong man, who has known power all his life, will lose respect for that power. But a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion."

- Dr. Abraham Erskine

"Take care of the sense and the sounds will take care of themselves."

- Lewis Carroll

"A loose tongue can lead to broken teeth."

- Dolly Parton

"The two worst strategic mistakes to make are acting prematurely and letting an opportunity slip; to avoid this, the warrior treats each situation as if it were unique and never resorts to formulae, recipes or other people's opinions."

- Paulo Coelho

"Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give."

- William A. Ward

"To acquire money requires valor, to keep money requires prudence, and to spend money well is an art."

- Berthold Auerbach

"Buy when everyone else is selling and hold until everyone else is buying. That's not just a catchy slogan. It's the very essence of successful investing."

- J. Paul Getty

"The individual investor should act consistently as an investor and not as a speculator."

- Ben Graham

"It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow."

- Aesop

"I’m sure the universe is full of intelligent life. It’s just been too intelligent to come here."

- Arthur C. Clarke

"Have a well-thought financial plan that is not dependent upon correctly guessing what will happen in the future."

- Barry Ritholtz

"The gratification of wealth is not found in mere possession or in lavish expenditure, but in its wise application."

- Miguel de Cervantes

"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

- Carl Sagan

"That lad must have been born offside"

- Alex Ferguson

"First, I went left; he did too. Then I went right, and he did, too. Then I went left again, and he went to buy a hot dog."

- Zlatan Ibrahimovic

"If we should have to fight, we should be prepared to do so from the neck up instead of from the neck down."

- Jimmy Doolittle

"In flying, the probability of survival is inversely proportional to the angle of arrival."

- Neil Armstrong

"The conventional army loses if it does not win. The guerrilla wins if he does not lose."

- Henry Kissinger

"One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas."

- Victor Hugo

"He belonged to that army known as invincible in peace, invisible in war."

- William Tecumseh Sherman

"Two armies that fight each other is like one large army that commits suicide."

- Henri Barbusse

"An army marches on its stomach."

- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself."

- Oprah Winfrey

"You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time."

- Abraham Lincoln

"Anyone who believes what a cat tells him deserves all he gets."

- Neil Gaiman

"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."

- Eckhart Tolle

"I used to ask God to help me. Then I asked if I might help him."

- Hudson Taylor

"The wise person doesn't give the right answers, but poses the right questions."

- Claude Levi-Strauss

"What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens."

- Ellen Glasgow

"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us."

- Socrates