Wisdom Quotes
9357 quotes by 3203 authors
-
An individual step in character training is to put responsibility on the individual.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
See things from the boy's point of view.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
The more responsibility the Scoutmaster gives his patrol leaders, the more they will respond.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
The Scoutmaster teaches boys to play the game by doing so himself.
— Robert Baden-Powell
-
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.
— Douglas Bader
-
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
— Lord Acton
-
Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.
— Abigail Adams
-
People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
— James A. Baldwin
-
In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
— Ansel Adams
-
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
— Lucille Ball
-
In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
— Lucille Ball
-
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
— Honore de Balzac
-
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
— Honore de Balzac
-
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
— Edward Abbey
-
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to…
— Douglas Adams
-
I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
— Brigitte Bardot
-
It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.
— Brigitte Bardot
-
There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of…
— James Truslow Adams
-
Those who bring sunshine into the lives of others cannot keep it from themselves.
— James M. Barrie
Who Wrote These Wisdom Quotes
3,203 authors contributed a total of 9,357 Wisdom Quotes, led by these top contributors: