Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“Trust in the Lord with all you do and you will be prosperous.”
Christian Proverb Quotes
“A lie told often enough becomes truth.”
Lenin (vladimir Ulyanov) Quotes
“Only the spoon knows what is stirring in the pot.”
Sicilian Proverb Quotes
“When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.”
Richard Buckminster Fuller Quotes
“Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. -General Omar Bradley.”
General Omar Bradley Quotes
“Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.”
Turkish Proverb Quotes
“He that won't be counselled can't be helped.”
Benjamin Franklin Quotes
“There is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth, and that a man giveth himself, as there is between the counsel of a friend and a flatterer.”
Francis Bacon Quotes
“Thought is a dangerous thing; it makes one see that the popular notions of society are wrong.”
Jon R. Sime Quotes
“If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.”
Anne Bradstreet Quotes
“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”
Danny Devito Quotes
“We must free ourselves of the hope that the sea will ever rest. We must learn to sail in high winds.”
Hanmer Parsons Grant Quotes
“He knows not his own strength that hath not met adversity.”
Ben Jonson Quotes
“If you can keep your head about you when all about you are losing theirs, its just possible you haven't grasped the situation.”
Jean Kerr Quotes
“Remember you are just an extra in everyone else's play.”
Stewart Emery Quotes
“Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else.”
Joseph Heller Quotes
“During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.”
Bernard M. Baruch Quotes
“Oh the comfort, the inexpressible comfort of feeling safe with a person, having neither to weigh thoughts nor measure words, but pouring them all right out, just as they are -- chaff and grain together -- certain that a faithful hand will take and sift them, keep what is worth keeping, and with the breath of kindness blow the rest away….”
Dinah Mulock Quotes
“Common sense is perhaps the most equally divided, but surely the most underemployed, talent in the world.”
Christine Collange Quotes
“The best prophet is common sense, our native wit.”
Euripides Quotes
“When two men share an umbrella, both of them get wet.”
Michael Isenberg Quotes
“Never wrestle with a strong man nor bring a rich man to court.”
Latvian Proverb Quotes
“The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I'm not mistaken, and I'll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.”
Desiderius Erasmus Quotes
“When in doubt, make a fool of yourself. There is a microscopically thin line between being brilliantly creative and acting like the most gigantic idiot on earth. So what the hell, leap.”
Cynthia Heimel Quotes
“You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She's 97 today and we don't know where the hell she is.”
Ellen DeGeneres Quotes