Wisdom Quotes

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

Never cut what you can untie.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.