528 Wisdom quotes

Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching.

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.

Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.

It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.

The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.

Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.

Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.

It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.

A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

Honesty is the best policy.

Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.

True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.

If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.

The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.

Imagination is more important than knowledge.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.

There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.

Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.

Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act.

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present.

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Be as you wish to seem.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful.

The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.

Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad.

Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.

Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Appearances are often deceiving.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom.

The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.

We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

When in doubt, don't.

Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out.

Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

Be happy. It's one way of being wise.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.

Slow and steady wins the race.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

None knows the weight of another's burden.

To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

Start wide, expand further, and never look back.

Every silver lining has a cloud.

What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us.

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

Giving opens the way for receiving.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.

A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.

A mouse does not rely on just one hole.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.

There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

Once you label me you negate me.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.

How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

Never find fault with the absent.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom.

Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.

If you want to go east, don't go west.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Wisdom and knowledge are the most valuable things in the body.

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

Let deeds match words.

Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.

Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God.

Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

We are wiser than we know.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I praise loudly. I blame softly.

The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?

Leave no stone unturned.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

Applause is a receipt, not a bill.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Please all, and you will please none.

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.

You can observe a lot by watching.

Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.

Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

A promise made is a debt unpaid.

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.

Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.

Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.

I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear.

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.

Plodding wins the race.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

Habit is the nursery of errors.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.

A closed mouth catches no flies.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.

First appearance deceives many.

To advise is not to compel.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.

You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.

It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

Kindness is wisdom.

Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

Never cut what you can untie.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.

One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.

Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.

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

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

Suffering is one of life's great teachers.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom.

Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

After all my possessions had been burned, God gave me the wisdom to return to Jerusalem.

Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.

When you doubt, abstain.

Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.

The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

Keep well; that is the half of wisdom and of happiness.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

I reject most conventional wisdom.

Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue.

True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.

Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.

Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.

Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Everything important always begins from something trivial.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action.

I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom.

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.

I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.

Trouble shared is trouble halved.

Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing.

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.

Outside of hip-hop, it was in comics that I most often found the aesthetics and wisdom of my world reflected.

The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.

Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose.

Look twice before you leap.

You have to know when to stop - that's wisdom.

Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences.

The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.

The less you talk, the more you're listened to.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.

All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

My dad was a man of great wisdom in his short time here.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

I associate wisdom and grace with age.

We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation.

When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.

Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.

Women are stronger than men - they do not die of wisdom.

There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity.

Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.

Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me.

It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.

Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart.

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone.

The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.