wisdom Quotes

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.