“Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.”
More from Laurence Peter on Wisdom
“In a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.”
“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”
“Old age is when you know all the answers but nobody asks you the questions.”
“Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.”
“The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.”
“Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
“Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.”
“If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?”
“An intelligence test sometimes shows a man how smart he would have been not to have taken it.”
“Speak when you are angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.”
Others on Wisdom
Sun Tzu
30 quotes“Do not swallow bait offered by the enemy. Do not interfere with an army that is returning home.”
Dalai Lama
22 quotes“Compassion is the radicalism of our time.”
Cervantes
20 quotes“A closed mouth catches no flies.”
Aesop
19 quotes“Little by little does the trick.”
Confucius
19 quotes“The gem cannot be polished without friction nor man perfected without trials.”
Ben Franklin
18 quotes“Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.”
Napoleon
16 quotes“Ability is of little account without opportunity.”
Cicero
15 quotes“Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.”
George Washington
14 quotes“Let your Discourse with Men of Business be Short and Comprehensive.”
Rudyard Kipling
14 quotes“I keep six honest serving men. (They taught me all I know) Their names are What and Why and When and How and Where and...”
Khalil Gibran
14 quotes“Perplexity is the beginning of knowledge.”
George R.R. Martin
14 quotes“This was how an enemy should be dealt with: with a dagger, not a declaration.”