Wisdom Quotes · Page 53
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“Writers may be solitary but they also tend to flock together: they like being solitary together.”
“Adults only ever said that when it, whatever it happened to be, was going to hurt so much.”
“The people who scare me are the ones who are certain of their own rightness.”
“If you can’t do the little things right, you’ll never be able to do the big things right.”
“You always know what's right, but sometimes it's just very hard to do it.”
“This sense of initiative separates the great leaders from the mediocre ones.”
“Good leaders understand that organizations are going to have challenges.”
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.”
“For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.”
“I saw that wisdom is better than folly, just as light is better than darkness.”
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven”
“All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.”
“Better is an handful with quietness, than both the hands full with travail and vexation of spirit.”
“Better a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take warning.”
“Better is it that thou shouldest not vow, than that thou shouldest vow and not pay.”
“It is better to heed a wise man's rebuke than to listen to the song of fools.”
“Be not hasty in thy spirit to be angry: for anger resteth in the bosom of fools.”
“There is not a righteous man on earth who does what is right and never sins.”
“The quiet words of the wise are more to be heeded than the shouts of a ruler of fools.”
“By slothfulness the roof sinketh in; and through idleness of the hands the house leaketh.”