Your best teacher is your last mistake.
Ralph Nader
We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart.
Blaise Pascal
If silly things were not done, intelligent things would never happen.
Tom Peters
The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.
Maya Angelou
The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch someone else do it wrong, without comment.
T.H. White
I'm not young enough to know everything.
J.M. Barrie
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
Big mouthfuls often choke.
Italian proverbs
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counsellors, and the most patient of teachers.
Charles William Eliot
It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.
Maurice Switzer
Time discovers truth.
Seneca
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Confucius
A quiet fool is half a sage.
Yiddish proverbs
Not all keys hang from one girdle.
Norwegian proverbs
Better know a little too much than too little.
Age does not always help against foolishness.
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.
Winston Churchill
Don't throw away the old bucket until you know whether the new one holds water.
Swedish proverbs
Never miss a good chance to shut up.
Will Rogers
A sparrow in the hand is better than a rooster on the roof.
Russian proverbs
