Leo Szilard Quotes

I have authentic wisdom to share with others.

A mentor, a 'teacher,' is like an editor. I absolutely value my editor, who is my teacher.

You always have something to learn from people who have been through more than you. Be open and receptive to what they know.

Great advice comes from people that have been around a lot longer than you.

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Know or listen to those who know.

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them.

If I can give you some kind of knowledge of life you should listen.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.

Do not seek advice from the ignorant.

The wisest man preaches no doctrines.

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

Anyone who has been successful and has knowledge to share is a potential mentor.

A word to the wise is sufficient

The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.

The supreme guide in life is knowledge.

Advice is a form of nostalgia.

We can learn from mistakes of others, whether they're kings or our parents. When we do learn those lessons, we're better equipped to make our own dreams come true.

Wisdom is only found in truth.

The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail

Now that I know that I am no wiser than anyone else, does this wisdom make me wiser?

Then may we not fairly plead in reply that our true lover of knowledge naturally strives for truth, and is not content with common opinion, but soars with undimmed and unwearied passion till he grasps the essential nature of things with the mental faculty fitted to do so, that is, with the faculty which is akin to reality, and which approaches and unites with it, and begets intelligence and truth as children, and is only released from travail when it has thus reached knowledge and true life and satisfaction?

When setting out on a journey do not seek advice from someone who never left home

The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach