Wise men don’t need advice. Fools won’t take it.
- Topic: Advice, Wisdom
- Location: Cabo San Lucas, Mexico
- Photo: Jeffrey Benjamin
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Historians relate, not so much what is done, as what they would have believed.
Your net worth to the world is usually determined by what remains after your bad habits are subtracted from your good ones.
Eat to live, and not live to eat.
He that blows the coals in quarrels that he has nothing to do with, has no right to complain if the sparks fly in his face.
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Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Do not feel certain of anything.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
The man who is truly good and wise will bear with dignity whatever fortune sends, and will always make the best of his circumstances.
A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.
Perfect wisdom has four parts; Wisdom, the principle of doing things right. Justice, the principle of doing things equally in public and private. Fortitude, the principle of not fleeing danger, but meeting it. Temperance, the principle of subduing desires and living moderately.
Grant me, O Lord my God, a mind to know you, a heart to seek you, wisdom to find you, conduct pleasing to you, faithful perseverance in waiting for you, and a hope of finally embracing you. Amen.
Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles in the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
