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Wisdom Quotes by Stephen Covey
- Humility is the mother of all virtues, courage the father, integrity the child and wisdom the grandchild.
- Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other.
- Only as we keep an open communication with our deep inner life will we have the wisdom to make effective choices.
- It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it and appropriately act on it.
- Consult the wisdom of your heart as well as your mind.
- Conscience connects us with the wisdom of the ages and the wisdom of the heart.
- Would you not agree that relationships are built on trust? Would you not also agree that most individuals think more in terms of "me-my wants,…
- Whatever is at the center of our life will be the source of our security, guidance, wisdom, and power
More Wisdom Quotes
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- Dignity does not consist in possessing honors, but in deserving them. — Aristotle
- The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- You teach best what you most need to learn. — Richard Bach
- Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand. — Neil Armstrong
- The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold