Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“The secret of getting ahead is getting started.”
Sally Berger Quotes
“People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.”
Frank Herbert, Dune Quotes
“You have to believe in God before you can say there are things that man was not meant to know. I don't think there's anything man wasn't meant to know. There are just some stupid things that people shouldn't do.”
David Cronenberg Quotes
“I want there to be no peasant in my kingdom so poor that he cannot have a chicken in his pot every Sunday.”
Henry Iv Quotes
“The disappearance of a sense of responsibility is the most far-reaching consequence of submission to authority.”
Stanley Milgram Quotes
“Man's greatness consists in his ability to do and the proper application of his powers to things needed to be done.”
Frederick Douglass Quotes
“My vocation is more in composition really than anything else -- building up harmonies using the guitar, orchestrating the guitar like an army, a guitar army.”
Jimmy Page Quotes
“True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.”
E. S. Bouton Quotes
“No one wants advice -- only corroboration. - The Winter of Our Discontent.”
John Steinbeck Quotes
“Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf.”
American Indian Proverb Quotes
“The only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.”
Napoleon Bonaparte Quotes
“Most people are alive in an earlier time, but you must be alive in our own time.”
Marshall McLuhan Quotes
“In this country men seem to live for action as long as they can and sink into apathy when they retire.”
Charles Francis Adams Quotes
“I find it unusual that it is more socially acceptable to complain about what you have than it is to ask for what you want.”
Phil Lout Quotes
“One is taught by experience to put a premium on those few people who can appreciate you for what you are.”
Gail Godwin Quotes
“Good instincts usually tell you what to do before your head has figured it out.”
Michael Burke Quotes
“Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.”
Herbert Agar Quotes
“The soul's impurity consists in bad judgments, and purification consists in producing in it right judgments, and the pure soul is one which has right judgments.”
Epictetus Quotes
“If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.”
M. H. Alderson Quotes
“There is a big difference between thinking: I'm in a relationship and something's wrong. Therefore something must be wrong with the relationship. and thinking I'm in a relationship and we've got problems. This is evidence that you are different than me.”
Wayne Dyer Quotes
“Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot.”
Lord Chesterfield Quotes
“A mistake is simply another way of doing things.”
Katharine Graham Quotes
“My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed.... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.”
St. Augustine Quotes
“Studying literature at Harvard is like learning about women at the Mayo clinic.”
Roy Jr. Blount Quotes
“Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
Euripides Quotes