Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

714 Advice / Experience / Wisdom Quotes
“You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.”
William Morris Hunt Quotes
“The hunger and thirst for knowledge, the keen delight in the chase, the good humored willingness to admit that the scent was false, the eager desire to get on with the work, the cheerful resolution to go back and begin again, the broad good sense, the unaffected modesty, the imperturbable temper, the gratitude for any little help that was given -- all these will remain in my memory though I cannot paint them for others.”
Frederic William Maitland Quotes
“Only those who have learned a lot are in a position to admit how little they know.”
L. Carte Quotes
“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but a lot of ignorance is just as bad.”
Bob Edwards Quotes
“Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.”
John Dewey Quotes
“When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint. When I asked why the poor were hungry, they called me a communist.”
Dom H. Camara Quotes
“The only pressure I'm under is the pressure I've put on myself.”
Mark Messier Quotes
“It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.”
Georges Bernanos Quotes
“Promise is most given when the least is said.”
George Chapman Quotes
“When we have begun to take charge of our lives, to own ourselves, there is no longer any need to ask permission of someone.”
George O'neil Quotes
“What is conceived well is expressed clearly.”
Nicholas Boileau Quotes
“To simplify complications is the first essential of success.”
George Earle Buckle Quotes
“The measure of a man's success must be according to his ability. The advancement he makes from the station in which he was born gives the degree of his success.”
Sir Walter Besant Quotes
“It takes twenty years to become an overnight success.”
Eddie Cantor Quotes
“It's the men behind who "make" the man ahead.”
Merle Crowell Quotes
“To succeed means that you may have to step out of line and march to the sound of your own drummer.”
Keith Degreen Quotes
“Profundity of thought belongs to youth, clarity of thought to old age.”
Fredrich Quotes
“As no roads are so rough as those that have just been mended, so no sinners are so intolerant as those that have just turned saints.”
Charles Caleb Colton Quotes
“Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.”
Sidney J. Harris Quotes
“The price of wisdom is eternal thought.”
Frank Birch Quotes
“When someone falls, don't laugh at them. Help them up. They will pay you back some day.”
Brooklyn Marie Quotes
“A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.”
Oliver Wendell-holmes Quotes
“It's not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
Charles Haddon-spurgeon Quotes
“Never practice two vices at once.”
Mike Binder Quotes
“Never go to bed angry. Stay up and fight.”
J. W. Eagan Quotes