George Crabbe Quotes

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.

The ideas I stand for are not mine. I borrowed them from Socrates. I swiped them from Chesterfield. I stole them from Jesus. And I put them in a book. If you don't like their rules, whose would you use?

Books give us insight into other people, other cultures. They make us laugh. They make us think. If they are really good, they make us believe that we are better for having read them. You don't read a book - you experience it. Every story opens up a new world.

I learned life from some good teachers.

Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are: precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from.

It's what you learn after you know it all, that counts.

My purpose is to share in any way what I learned, like, 'Girl, I went through this, so now you don't have to go through the same thing.'

A mentor is someone with a willingness to help others, who has a capacity to inspire, a determination to work hard, a clear sense of vision, an inspiring purpose, a deep sense of integrity and an appreciation for joy.

We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Sense shines with double lustre when set in humility.

Man is wise only while in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.

I never did a single wise thing in the whole course of my existence, although I have written many which have been thought so.

Books are never out of humour; never envious or jealous, they answer all questions with readiness; ... they teach us how to live and how to die; they dispel melancholy by their mirth, and amuse by their wit; they prepare the soul to suffer everything and desire nothing; they introduce us to ourselves.

They say that there are three kinds of people in the world. There are people who never learn one way or another anything; there are people who learn from their own mistakes, eventually and with great pain; and then there are the really wise people who learn from other people's mistakes and spare themselves the suffering.

When you come to see you are not as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you are wiser today.

It is never too late to be wise.

A book is valuable not only for what it says but for what it makes you think, or causes you to remember. No matter what you wish to do or become there are books to teach you, help you, guide you.

If you want to follow some good steps, it would Proverbs, all over.

The beautiful thing about my intelligence is that it doesn't really come in one specific department. So even if something hasn't happened to me, I have information on how to get you through whatever you may be going through.

I don't think there's any better education than learning the intimate details of the lives of people who you most admire.

The wise are wise only because they love. The fool are fools only because they think they can understand love.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

Do not be an arrogant scholar, for scholarship cannot subsist with arrogance.

If thou wouldst help others, deal with them as though they were what they should be

Consult with the ignorant as with the wise.