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Ralph Waldo Emerson | Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. | 5 |
William Arthur Ward | The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. | 15 |
Socrates | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. | 24 |
Henry David Thoreau | It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. | 31 |
Lao Tzu | The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. | 68 |
Thomas Jefferson | Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. | 69 |
Sigmund Freud | Being entirely honest with oneself is a good exercise. | 74 |
Satchel Paige | Work like you don't need the money. Love like you've never been hurt. Dance like nobody's watching. | 81 |
John Wooden | Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful. | 101 |
Richard M. Nixon | Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines. | 101 |
Abraham Maslow | If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail. | 101 |
Lewis Carroll | If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. | 101 |
William Tecumseh Sherman | My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. | 101 |
Archimedes | Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. | 101 |
Bo Bennett | Those who improve with age embrace the power of personal growth and personal achievement and begin to replace youth with wisdom, innocence with understanding, and lack of purpose with self-actualization. | 101 |
Catherine the Great | I praise loudly. I blame softly. | 101 |
Elizabeth Kenny | It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life. | 101 |
Florence Scovel Shinn | Giving opens the way for receiving. | 101 |
George C. Marshall | When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. | 101 |
Gordon Gee | The arts, quite simply, nourish the soul. They sustain, comfort, inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom. | 101 |
Holly Near | If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum. | 101 |
Ludwig van Beethoven | Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. | 101 |
Marlo Thomas | My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. | 101 |
Moliere | A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. | 101 |
Norman Douglas | The pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship. | 101 |
Omar N. Bradley | Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship. | 101 |
Pope Paul VI | Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. | 101 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. | 101 |
Saint Basil | A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. | 101 |
Walter Benjamin | Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. | 101 |
Xenophanes | It isn't right to judge strength as better than good wisdom. | 101 |
Xenophon | The sweetest of all sounds is praise. | 101 |
Alexandre Dumas | All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope. | 101 |
Julian Casablancas | Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense. | 101 |
Lord John Russell | A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one. | 101 |
Paul Engle | Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise. | 101 |
Wallace Stegner | Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus. | 101 |
Elizabeth Bibesco | Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. | 101 |
Ezra Stiles | A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments. | 101 |
Francis Hutcheson | Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means. | 101 |
John Bercow | Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. | 101 |
Lianne La Havas | I love the music of Lauryn Hill and Erykah Badu and more recently the music of Laura Marling. All these women share a strength and a wisdom in their voices and music that really makes me want to make music and sing. | 101 |
Nina Totenberg | I actually think with age comes some level of wisdom. | 101 |
Shekhar Kapur | I have devoted my life to uncertainty. Certainty is the death of wisdom, thought, creativity. | 101 |
Denis McDonough | As a husband, father and public servant, I'm thankful for the counsel and wisdom of my older brothers - Bill, who was a priest, and Kevin, who is a priest. | 101 |
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey | We live in a society bloated with data yet starved for wisdom. We're connected 24/7, yet anxiety, fear, depression and loneliness is at an all-time high. We must course-correct. | 101 |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | But in its final creation it was not the part of the Father's power to fail as though exhausted. It was not the part of His wisdom to waver in a needful matter through poverty of counsel. | 101 |
Hippolyte Taine | I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. | 101 |
Johann Georg Hamann | All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. | 101 |
Johannes Tauler | Because in the school of the Spirit man learns wisdom through humility, knowledge by forgetting, how to speak by silence, how to live by dying. | 101 |
Mary Chapin Carpenter | As far as feeling freedom in my career now versus five years ago... I think if I feel any more free it's simply because of the experiences that I've had, and the wisdom I've accumulated from that time. | 101 |
Rod Taylor | I am a poor student sitting at the feet of giants, yearning for their wisdom and begging for lessons that might one day make me a complete artist, so that if all goes well, I may one day sit beside them. | 101 |
Ruth Glick | For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means. | 101 |
Shaun Tan | The more I draw and write, the more I realise that accidents are a necessary part of any creative act, much more so than logic or wisdom. Sometimes a mistake is the only way of arriving at an original concept, and the history of successful inventions is full of mishaps, serendipity and unintended results. | 101 |
Stanford Moore | This ceremony and the intellectual aura associated with the Nobel Prizes have grown from the wisdom of a practical chemist who wrote a remarkable will. | 101 |
William Whitehead | Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom the source of virtue, and of fame, obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. | 101 |
Brenda Ueland | This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. | 101 |
Dora Russell | We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. | 101 |
Estelle Getty | Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles. | 101 |
Gene Oliver | My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. | 101 |
Jane Wyman | The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. | 101 |
Jay Griffiths | Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolphins, which fill the oceans with blipping and chirping, and whales, which mew and caw in ultramarine jazz - a true rhapsody in blue - are hunted to the edge of silence. | 101 |
Leo Strauss | If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom. | 101 |
Peter Conrad | Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death. | 101 |
Phyllis Theroux | Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. | 101 |
Pierre Charron | The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. | 101 |
Abraham Cahan | Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. | 101 |
Chade-Meng Tan | If I can turn the most powerful part of the world into a land of wisdom and compassion, it's going to change the rest of the world. | 101 |
Daniel Dae Kim | There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones. | 101 |
Larry Merchant | Follow the wisdom of the great actor, James Cagney, you hit your mark, you look the other guy in the eye, and you tell the truth. | 101 |
Roger Ascham | It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. | 101 |
Sidney Hook | Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. | 101 |
Thomas Shepard | In regard of the rich grace and wisdom of his love toward his people; for who sees not, but that it is a curse to be unready as these foolish virgins, who were therefore shut out. | 101 |
Tobias Smollett | Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. | 101 |
David Starr Jordan | Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. | 101 |
Akiva ben Joseph | The tradition is a fence around the law; tithes are a fence around riches; vows are a fence around abstinence; a fence around wisdom is silence. | 101 |
Arthur Cohn | I chose Sony Classics, not just because of their practical experience, not just because of their wisdom in marketing, but mainly because of their integrity. | 101 |
Robert Lloyd | Slow and steady wins the race. | 101 |
Mary Browne | Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. | 101 |
Mo Udall | Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them. | 101 |
John Jewel | But the law of God came from heaven indeed. God wrote it with his finger, it is the fountain of all wisdom, and therefore shall it continue for ever, and never have an end. | 101 |
Jacqueline Carey | It's funny, because in deference to conventional wisdom, I spent my struggling writer years trying to suppress my naturally baroque literary voice and write clean, spare prose. I finally gave up and embraced my baroque tendencies when I wrote the Kushiel series. | 101 |
John Denham | Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use. | 101 |
James Prescott Joule | After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork. | 101 |
Jonathan Schell | No single person can possess the wisdom to chart our course. | 101 |
Franz Kafka | Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable. | 102 |
John Wooden | Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you. | 102 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | No man was ever wise by chance. | 102 |
Michael Jordan | If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. | 102 |
Thomas Hobbes | It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. | 102 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | Who is wise in love, love most, say least. | 102 |
Anton Chekhov | People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. | 102 |
Aleister Crowley | Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness. | 102 |
Ausonius | If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. | 102 |
Christopher Reeve | What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. | 102 |
Daniel J. Boorstin | The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. | 102 |
Dee Hock | It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom. | 102 |
Franz Grillparzer | Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun. | 102 |
Greg Anderson | Let us be about setting high standards for life, love, creativity, and wisdom. If our expectations in these areas are low, we are not likely to experience wellness. Setting high standards makes every day and every decade worth looking forward to. | 102 |
Hal Borland | Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. | 102 |
James M. Barrie | We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. | 102 |
Joan Rivers | Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise. | 102 |
Katharine Graham | A mistake is simply another way of doing things. | 102 |
King Solomon | Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. | 102 |
Owen Feltham | Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. | 102 |
Sydney J. Harris | Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. | 102 |
Zoe Saldana | I'm very accepting with my age. It's like notches on your belt: experience, wisdom, and a different kind of beauty. There comes a day when you've become comfortable in your skin. | 102 |
Alan Kay | The best way to predict the future is to invent it. | 102 |
Alexis Carrel | All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. | 102 |
Arianna Huffington | Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left. | 102 |
Arthur Helps | Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. | 102 |
Brian O'Driscoll | Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing not to put it in a fruit salad. | 102 |
Charles Hazlewood | Most people in the Western world grow up with the received wisdom that Mozart was a genius. But few people necessarily know why. More than anyone else, he captured this something which is the human condition, the fine line that we all constantly dance between joy and pain, between absolute happiness and absolute heartbreak. | 102 |
Chen Shui-bian | Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit. | 102 |
Dale Turner | Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future. | 102 |
Dean Inge | The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. | 102 |
James Surowiecki | Linux is a complex example of the wisdom of crowds. It's a good example in the sense that it shows you can set people to work in a decentralized way - that is, without anyone really directing their efforts in a particular direction - and still trust that they're going to come up with good answers. | 102 |
Jean Paul | The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. | 102 |
Jim Elliot | He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. | 102 |
Nouriel Roubini | What is important to me is that when I write something, people listen to me. I provide my wisdom to people, whether they agree or not. | 102 |
Rene Russo | Every day, every birthday candle I blow out, every penny I throw over my shoulder in a wishing well, every time my daughter says, 'Let's make a wish on a star,' there's one thing I wish for: wisdom. | 102 |
Teri Garr | You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. | 102 |
Wilfred Grenfell | Courage is always the surest wisdom. | 102 |
William Eardley IV | Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow! | 102 |
Adoniram Judson | Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent. | 102 |
Akhenaton | To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. | 102 |
Anne Bradstreet | Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish. | 102 |
George Combe | They are few in the midst of an overwhelming mass of brute force, and their submission is wisdom; but for a nation like England to submit to be robbed by any invader who chooses to visit her shores seemed to me to be nonsense. | 102 |
Lactantius | Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. | 102 |
P. Chidambaram | All wisdom does not reside in Delhi. | 102 |
Wade Davis | What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks. | 102 |
Wilfrid Sheed | One reason the human race has such a low opinion of itself is that it gets so much of its wisdom from writers. | 102 |
David Stern | It was the Michael Jordan/Nike phenomenon that really let people see that athletes were OK, and black athletes were OK. Defying a previous wisdom - not only that black athletes wouldn't sell in white America, but that the NBA as a predominantly black sport could not sell in white America. | 102 |
Gerald Brenan | Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions. | 102 |
Gilles Marini | The difference between a 20-something and a 30-something man? Wisdom. At 20 years old, we don't really get how sensitive and beautiful women are. By 30, we're finally starting to learn. | 102 |
Johannes Tauler | God in His wisdom has decided that He will reward no works but His own. | 102 |
Riccardo Muti | Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition. | 102 |
Adam Rapp | I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion. | 102 |
Ariel Gore | Conventional wisdom tells us we'll only be happier after a divorce if the marriage itself was a war zone. | 102 |
Barry Schwartz | Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them. | 102 |
Clarence Day | You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. | 102 |
Clifford Stoll | Data is not information, information is not knowledge, knowledge is not understanding, understanding is not wisdom. | 102 |
Edgar Fiedler | He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. | 102 |
Julia Louis-Dreyfus | I have no agenda except to be funny. Neither I or the writers profess to offer any worldly wisdom. | 102 |
Tom Brown, Jr. | Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power. | 102 |
Sidney Lanier | Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. | 102 |
Avery Brooks | Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster. | 102 |
Ralph Cudworth | Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. | 102 |
John George Nicolay | It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly. | 102 |
Myrtle Reed | Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom. | 102 |
Jeremy Collier | Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom. | 102 |
Joko Widodo | It's now our responsibility to prove to ourselves, to other nations, and especially to our children and our grandchildren, that politics is full of fun; politics has some wisdom. Politics is freedom. | 102 |
John Patrick | Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. | 102 |
Epictetus | It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters. | 103 |
Francis of Assisi | Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. | 103 |
George Bernard Shaw | We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. | 103 |
Jim Rohn | Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. | 103 |
Iris Murdoch | Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. | 103 |
Michelangelo | The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. | 103 |
Aristophanes | A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. | 103 |
Barry White | I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. | 103 |
Bill Bradley | Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' | 103 |
Chuck Noll | Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom. | 103 |
Edith Wharton | Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. | 103 |
Harvey Mackay | Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. | 103 |
Heber J. Grant | If you and I desire the blessings of life, of health, of vigor of body and mind; if we desire the destroying angel to pass us by, as he did in the days of the children of Israel, we must obey the Word of Wisdom; then God is bound, and the blessing shall come to us. | 103 |
Henry Van Dyke | Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. | 103 |
Hugh Jackman | The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it. | 103 |
Isaac D'Israeli | The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. | 103 |
Josh Billings | Wisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has. | 103 |
Judy Garland | Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. | 103 |
Karl Kraus | Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. | 103 |
Krista Tippett | Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. | 103 |
Loretta Young | A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself. | 103 |
Marilyn vos Savant | To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. | 103 |
Nathaniel Hawthorne | The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed. | 103 |
Orson F. Whitney | What has history said of eminence without honor, wealth without wisdom, power and possessions without principle? The answer is reiterated in the overthrow of the mightiest empires of ancient times. Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome! The four successive, universal powers of the past. What and where are they? | 103 |
Pierre Corneille | To win without risk is to triumph without glory. | 103 |
Quintus Ennius | He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise. | 103 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other. | 103 |
Rowan Williams | And when the world is created, it is created in such a way that those eternal objects of God's loving wisdom become actualities - interacting with one another, relating to God in the finite realm. | 103 |
Stendhal | The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. | 103 |
Stephen Gardiner | The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom. | 103 |
Thomas Dekker | This age thinks better of a gilded fool Than of a threadbare saint in wisdom's school. | 103 |
Thornton Wilder | Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. | 103 |
Timothy Noah | Success is a wonderful thing, but it tends not to be the sort of experience that we learn from. We enjoy it; perhaps we even deserve it. But we don't acquire wisdom from it. | 103 |
Tina Turner | I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things. | 103 |
Torquato Tasso | The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. | 103 |
Vikas Swarup | Knowledge is not just the preserve of the educated elite. Just because someone has not had a formal education, that does not mean he does not have wisdom and common sense. | 103 |
Walter Lippmann | It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. | 103 |
Walter Scott | O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive! | 103 |
William Dunbar | Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive. | 103 |
William Gibson | The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. | 103 |
William Law | This, and this alone, is Christianity, a universal holiness in every part of life, a heavenly wisdom in all our actions, not conforming to the spirit and temper of the world but turning all worldly enjoyments into means of piety and devotion to God. | 103 |
Ben Hogan | As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. | 103 |
Janet Jackson | In complete darkness we are all the same, it is only our knowledge and wisdom that separates us, don't let your eyes deceive you. | 103 |
Max de Pree | We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. | 103 |
Paul Di Filippo | Consensus wisdom has it that all modern commercial fantasy novels fall into two camps: those derived from J.R.R. Tolkien and those derived from Mervyn Peake. The 'Lord of the Rings' template or the 'Gormenghast' mold. | 103 |
Peter Abelard | The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. | 103 |
Vusi Mahlasela | If you are bitter, you are like a dry leaf that you can just squash, and you can get blown away by the wind. There is much more wisdom in forgiveness. | 103 |
Alan Paton | Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom. | 103 |
Bernard DeVoto | Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom. | 103 |
Ed Miliband | The most important lesson of New Labour is this: Every time we made progress we did it by challenging the conventional wisdom. | 103 |
Lactantius | The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. | 103 |
Pauline Phillips | The less you talk, the more you're listened to. | 103 |
Thomas Reid | And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also. | 103 |
Bennie Thompson | Any successful nominee should possess both the temperament to interpret the law and the wisdom to do so fairly. The next Supreme Court Justice should have a record of protecting individual rights and a strong willingness to put aside any political agenda. | 103 |
Elizabeth Kapu'uwailani Lindsey | I believe that when an elder dies, a library is burned: vast sums of wisdom and knowledge are lost. Throughout the world libraries are ablaze with scant attention. | 103 |
Ethel Barrymore | You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. | 103 |
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola | God the Father, the supreme Architect, had already built this cosmic home we behold, the most sacred temple of His godhead, by the laws of His mysterious wisdom. | 103 |
Joseph Stiglitz | Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom. | 103 |
Kenichi Fukui | In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind. | 103 |
Liu Xiaobo | Hatred is corrosive of a person's wisdom and conscience; the mentality of enmity can poison a nation's spirit, instigate brutal life and death struggles, destroy a society's tolerance and humanity, and block a nation's progress to freedom and democracy. | 103 |
Thandie Newton | I see a wiser person than when I was younger: having babies, and passing 30, were the turning points. What women in their 40s - I am 39 - lack in gorgeousness, they make up for in wisdom. I love ageing, despite the drawbacks - thinner, drier skin. | 103 |
Abbott L. Lowell | Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. | 103 |
David Morrell | One of the advantages of having gone to Penn State was having had a scholar for a mentor - Philip Young. Also, a professional writer named Philip Klass taught there. He was a science fiction writer whose pseudonym was William Tenn. As a professional writer, he brought wisdom to teaching because he'd done it for a living. | 103 |
Ruth St. Denis | Our bodies are at once the receiving and transmitting stations for life itself. It is the highest wisdom to recognize this fact and train our bodies to render them sensitive and responsive to nature. art and religion. | 103 |
Lord Salisbury | If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. | 103 |
Rosemarie DeWitt | I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life; I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. | 103 |
Sidney Lanier | If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. | 103 |
Andrew Zuckerman | Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it. | 103 |
John Avlon | What's different now is that while political leaders used to give talking points to talk radio, now talk-radio hosts are giving talking points to political leaders. It's all part of the suffocating spin cycle we're in. In media, politics and publishing, the conventional wisdom is to play to this base. | 103 |
Jane Porter | Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they are oracles of wisdom; unless they teach virtue, they are more worthy of a halter than of the laurel. | 103 |
James Newman | Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists. | 103 |
H. L. Mencken | Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. | 104 |
Socrates | Be as you wish to seem. | 104 |
Charles Spurgeon | Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. | 104 |
Francis Bacon | Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. | 104 |
John C. Maxwell | A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. | 104 |
John Wooden | It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. | 104 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. | 104 |
Swami Vivekananda | We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far. | 104 |
Isaac Bashevis Singer | When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. | 104 |
Amelia Earhart | Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done. | 104 |
Anton Chekhov | Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. | 104 |
Calvin Coolidge | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity. | 104 |
Edward Everett Hale | Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. | 104 |
Ellen Glasgow | What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. | 104 |
Jean de La Fontaine | Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. | 104 |
Kiana Tom | True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people. | 104 |
Phil Jackson | Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. | 104 |
Vincent Bugliosi | Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events. | 104 |
Angela Ahrendts | Intuition is the wisdom formed by feeling and instinct - a gift of knowing without reasoning... Belief is ignited by hope and supported by facts and evidence - it builds alignment and creates confidence. Belief is what sets energy in motion and creates the success that breeds more success. | 104 |
Bruce Lipton | Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it. | 104 |
Charlie Pierce | If religion comes into the public square, it is as vulnerable as any other human institution to be pelted with produce. Ignorance does not become wisdom just because you gussy it up with the Gospels. | 104 |
Henry Petroski | All conventional wisdom has an element of truth to it, but good design requires more than an element of truth - it requires an ensemble of correct assumptions and valid calculations. | 104 |
J. Michael Straczynski | People spend too much time finding other people to blame, too much energy finding excuses for not being what they are capable of being, and not enough energy putting themselves on the line, growing out of the past, and getting on with their lives. | 104 |
Jimmy Carr | After a gig I always head back to the hotel, remembering granny's words of wisdom. I cancel the late-night pizza and watch the Jonathan Ross show instead. | 104 |
John Lubbock | A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. | 104 |
Michael Eric Dyson | Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this. | 104 |
Parker Palmer | America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others. | 104 |
Patricia Richardson | They see me as being this Super Mom on TV who also can more than handle a difficult husband, and they assume I'm going to be just full of wisdom as a mother and wife myself. | 104 |
Paul Greengrass | Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom. | 104 |
Sacha Guitry | Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. | 104 |
Steve Albini | Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment. | 104 |
Akhenaton | True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. | 104 |
Evelyn Underhill | Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. | 104 |
Peter Blair Henry | Good economic policy requires not so much the bravado to implement drastic change as the strength and wisdom to make reasonable trade-offs over the many years it takes to transform a country's standard of living. | 104 |
Richard V. Allen | This land, which we have watered with our tears and our blood, is now our mother country, and we are well satisfied to stay where wisdom abounds and gospel is free. | 104 |
Solon | Rich people without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. | 104 |
Edwin Markham | It is better to rust out than wear out. | 104 |
Gustave Courbet | I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. | 104 |
James Gleick | Information is not knowledge, and knowledge is not wisdom. Reading - even browsing - an old book can yield sustenance denied by a database search. Patience is a virtue, gluttony a sin. | 104 |
Randy Forbes | While many of us never knew Ronald Reagan personally, we felt close to him because we shared his lighthearted sense of humor, admired his uncommon virtue, and were moved by his remarkable wisdom. | 104 |
Thomas Traherne | To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness. | 104 |
Ameen Rihani | Experience is knowledge; but knowledge, when it is sought only as a material resource, is not always a blessing. Experience is wisdom; but wisdom, with those who lack vision, is not always power. Experience is tolerance; but tolerance, when it is induced by apathy, is not in the least a virtue. | 104 |
Billy Ray Cyrus | I always prayed that God would give me the wisdom and the vision to do the things on this earth that I was supposed to do to express His life and love and His will. | 104 |
David Puttnam | There's always a miasma of misinformation emerging from the higher education sector as to which are the 'best' courses to take. My advice would always be to ignore the perceived wisdom and look for the most reliable evidence on the ground. | 104 |
Liz Carpenter | Instead of looking at life as a narrowing funnel, we can see it ever widening to choose the things we want to do, to take the wisdom we've learned and create something. | 104 |
Alex Grey | Spiritual teachers and artists that have opened the eye of wisdom for the world, and visionary community builders, have influenced my work. | 104 |
Mary Wilson Little | He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. | 104 |
Joanna Southcott | If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment. | 104 |
James Huneker | He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. | 104 |
Buddha | To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. | 105 |
Walt Disney | The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique. | 105 |
Audrey Hepburn | For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you are never alone. | 105 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk. | 105 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. | 105 |
Ravi Zacharias | You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. | 105 |
Anatole France | Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. | 105 |
Don Shula | The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. | 105 |
Edna Ferber | Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. | 105 |
Edward Young | The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. | 105 |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours. | 105 |
Herman Hesse | Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life. | 105 |
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. | 105 |
Keith Miller | Pain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth. | 105 |
Logan Pearsall Smith | It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. | 105 |
Lucretius | The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. | 105 |
Mary Kay Ash | Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. | 105 |
Omar N. Bradley | If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. | 105 |
Omar Sharif | He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has. | 105 |
Phil Jackson | Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. | 105 |
Publilius Syrus | From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. | 105 |
Rahul Gandhi | It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India. | 105 |
Thomas J. Watson | Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. | 105 |
Charlie Parker | Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. | 105 |
David Brainerd | The all-seeing eye of God beheld our deplorable state; infinite pity touched the heart of the Father of mercies; and infinite wisdom laid the plan of our recovery. | 105 |
Eric Alterman | As a parent and a citizen, I'll take a Bill Gates (or Warren Buffett) over Steve Jobs every time. If we must have billionaires, better they should ignore Jobs's example and instead embrace the morality and wisdom of the great industrialist-philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. | 105 |
Esther Williams | The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it. | 105 |
John Henry Newman | Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. | 105 |
Joseph Prince | As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life. | 105 |
Peter Jennings | I've always shied away from conventional wisdom, though I know the power of it. | 105 |
Philip James Bailey | Kindness is wisdom. | 105 |
Shakti Gawain | We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it. | 105 |
A. C. Benson | People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. | 105 |
Aubrey de Grey | The biggest handicap in research is an ability to think outside the box. The handicap is being encumbered by all the conventional wisdom in a given field. | 105 |
Cass McCombs | Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead. | 105 |
Cat Cora | Even when you have doubts, take that step. Take chances. Mistakes are never a failure - they can be turned into wisdom. | 105 |
Drew Curtis | The 'wisdom of the crowds' is the most ridiculous statement I've heard in my life. Crowds are dumb. | 105 |
Edward Levi | As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values. | 105 |
John Woolman | I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others. | 105 |
Peter Hammill | I continue to believe, contrary to the given wisdom, that it's more interesting to have an album - or, indeed, an individual song - which has variety rather than homogeneity. | 105 |
Thomas Reid | Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned. | 105 |
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita | In order to predict effectively, we need to use science. And the reason that we need to use science is because then we can reproduce what we're doing; it's not just wisdom or guesswork. And if we can predict, then we can engineer the future. | 105 |
Elizabeth Gaskell | Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom. | 105 |
Tim Jackson | The philosophical point is that our happiness and wellbeing is not based on incomes rising. This is not just the wisdom of sages but of ordinary people. Prosperity is more social and psychological: it's about identification, affiliation, participation in society and a sense of purpose. | 105 |
John Thune | Because of my upbringing, I believe in things like limited government, fiscal responsibility and personal accountability. I believe in the wisdom of our founders and the sanctity of our Constitution. | 105 |
Alex Grey | I acknowledge the privilege of being alive in a human body at this moment, endowed with senses, memories, emotions, thoughts, and the space of mind in its wisdom aspect. | 105 |
Joseph Roux | Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired. | 105 |
John Florio | Wisdom sails with wind and time. | 105 |
Jonathan Nolan | Look at anyone's bookcase at home, no matter how modest, and you're going to find a book that contains wisdom or ideas or a language that's at least a thousand years old. And the idea that humans have created a mechanism to time travel, to hurl ideas into the future, it sort of bookends. Books are a time machine. | 105 |
Robert Bridges | Beauty, the eternal Spouse of the Wisdom of God and Angel of his Presence thru' all creation. | 105 |
John Cheever | Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. | 105 |
Joseph Story | And it is no less true, that personal security and private property rest entirely upon the wisdom, the stability, and the integrity of the courts of justice. | 105 |
Nelson Mandela | A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. | 106 |
Baruch Spinoza | Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. | 106 |
Carl Jung | Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. | 106 |
Thomas A. Edison | Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. | 106 |
Og Mandino | Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity. | 106 |
Charlotte Bronte | A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. | 106 |
Daisaku Ikeda | History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom. | 106 |
Emanuel Swedenborg | The Divine of the Lord in heaven is love, for the reason that love is receptive of all things of heaven, such as peace, intelligence, wisdom and happiness. | 106 |
Eric Ries | You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. | 106 |
Henry Van Dyke | Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. | 106 |
James Buchanan | To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute. | 106 |
Octavio Paz | Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary. | 106 |
Pietro Aretino | I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or better than friendship. | 106 |
Venerable Bede | And I pray thee, loving Jesus, that as Thou hast graciously given me to drink in with delight the words of Thy knowledge, so Thou wouldst mercifully grant me to attain one day to Thee, the fountain of all wisdom and to appear forever before Thy face. | 106 |
Alfred Austin | Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. | 106 |
Donald Hall | Everything important always begins from something trivial. | 106 |
Elena Kagan | I've led a school whose faculty and students examine and discuss and debate every aspect of our law and legal system. And what I've learned most is that no one has a monopoly on truth or wisdom. I've learned that we make progress by listening to each other, across every apparent political or ideological divide. | 106 |
Kris Kristofferson | Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older. | 106 |
Pratibha Patil | India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country. | 106 |
Richard Whately | It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. | 106 |
Robert Dale Owen | Wisdom, prudence, forethought, these are essential. But not second to these that noble courage which adventures the right, and leaves the consequences to God. | 106 |
Robert W. Service | A promise made is a debt unpaid. | 106 |
Theodore Dreiser | In order to have wisdom we must have ignorance. | 106 |
Tom Hopkins | Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. | 106 |
George Allen, Sr. | Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. | 106 |
Knut Hamsun | However, I must not indulge in homespun wisdom here before so distinguished an assembly, especially as I am to be followed by a representative of science. | 106 |
Rachel Dratch | I have no wisdom to share on dating. | 106 |
Shinichi Suzuki | What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. | 106 |
Stephen Vincent Benet | We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. | 106 |
William Samuel Johnson | To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly. | 106 |
Chad Harbach | You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. | 106 |
David Limbaugh | Analysts may be correct that the presidential election won't primarily turn on entitlements reform, but by choosing Paul Ryan as his running mate, Mitt Romney can, contrary to conventional wisdom, make it a winning issue and lay the foundation for a reform mandate when he wins. | 106 |
Elizabeth Hardwick | Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more. | 106 |
Gertrude Jekyll | In garden arrangement, as in all other kinds of decorative work, one has not only to acquire a knowledge of what to do, but also to gain some wisdom in perceiving what it is well to let alone. | 106 |
Pope Theodoros II | We don't pray for the land. We pray for the humans, all humans... starting with the president, Mohammed Morsi, and all officials, and for God to give everyone wisdom and responsibility to manage the affairs of this country and its people in true Egyptian spirit. | 106 |
Ameen Rihani | Only a well-rounded intellect, a spirit nourished in the eternal sources of intelligence and culture, of justice and wisdom, is a safeguard against both indifference and skepticism. | 106 |
Josh Brolin | I covered my face because they had taken my wisdom teeth out. | 106 |
Alexander Woollcott | Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. | 106 |
Dr. Seuss | Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life's a Great Balancing Act. | 107 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. | 107 |
Thomas Paine | A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right. | 107 |
Alfred Lord Tennyson | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. | 107 |
Euripides | Silence is true wisdom's best reply. | 107 |
Sophocles | Wisdom outweighs any wealth. | 107 |
Bernie Siegel | Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors. | 107 |
Bodhidharma | Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. | 107 |
Constantin Stanislavski | The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it. | 107 |
Dan Rather | Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. | 107 |
Ella Wheeler Wilcox | The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. | 107 |
Guy Finley | Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. | 107 |
Joseph Smith, Jr. | The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching. | 107 |
Reinhold Niebuhr | The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. | 107 |
Sammy Davis, Jr. | You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. | 107 |
Samuel Smiles | The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. | 107 |
Thomas Babington Macaulay | Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. | 107 |
Walter Benjamin | The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out. | 107 |
Gabriel Marcel | Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them. | 107 |
Greg Walden | A man of strength and wisdom, John Paul became an inspiration to generations of both Catholics and non-Catholics throughout the world by encouraging freedom, promoting peace and respecting all faiths. | 107 |
Juvenal | Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. | 107 |
Elizabeth George | Writing is no dying art form in America because most published writers here accept the wisdom and the necessity of encouraging the talent that follows in their footsteps. | 107 |
Ray LaMontagne | I probably wouldn't be a songwriter if I didn't grow up the way I did. It was difficult and it was at times very scary to grow up in a household so unsettled and at times very violent. But, it also, I guess it earned me a sort of wisdom at a young age that's served me well. | 107 |
Sam Mendes | The perceived wisdom is that people do not go in large numbers to black-and-white movies anymore - which is a great shame, but I'd love to make a black-and-white movie one day. | 107 |
Martin Farquhar Tupper | Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory? | 107 |
Radhanath Swami | We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. | 107 |
John C. McGinley | The conventional wisdom with David Mamet is, you do not change a word. And that agrees with me. If you want to change any of David's words, it's like wanting to change the iambic pentameter in Shakespeare - you should do something else. | 107 |
Maria Bartiromo | I'm not a money manager, but I can tell you what the conventional wisdom is. The younger you are, the more risk you can take on. | 107 |
Roone Arledge | The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that won't be true in the future. | 107 |
Richard Cecil | Wisdom prepares for the worst, but folly leaves the worst for the day when it comes. | 107 |
Lao Tzu | I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. | 108 |
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures. | 108 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. | 108 |
Joseph Campbell | Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again. | 108 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | If you want a thing done well, do it yourself. | 108 |
William James | The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. | 108 |
Aesop | Appearances are often deceiving. | 108 |
John Keats | I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. | 108 |
Oprah Winfrey | Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. | 108 |
Sophocles | Quick decisions are unsafe decisions. | 108 |
Arthur Conan Doyle | It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. | 108 |
Elisabeth Kubler-Ross | I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime. | 108 |
Erik Erikson | When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age. | 108 |
Herman Hesse | The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion. | 108 |
Karen DeCrow | The censors have always had a field day with James Joyce, specifically with 'Ulysses,' but also with his other writings. The conventional wisdom is that this is because of sexually explicit passages (and there certainly are those). I have always thought that what the critics hated and feared about Joyce is his cry for human freedom. | 108 |
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi | The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence. | 108 |
Octavio Paz | Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. | 108 |
Origen | But the Wisdom of God, which is His only-begotten Son, being in all respects incapable of change or alteration, and every good quality in Him being essential, and such as cannot be changed and converted, His glory is therefore declared to be pure and sincere. | 108 |
Orson Pratt | If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king. | 108 |
Paul Klee | Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. | 108 |
Ram Dass | Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom. | 108 |
Robert H. Schuller | Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. | 108 |
Rollo May | If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. | 108 |
Theodore Isaac Rubin | Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. | 108 |
Wilhelm von Humboldt | However great an evil immorality may be, we must not forget that it is not without its beneficial consequences. It is only through extremes that men can arrive at the middle path of wisdom and virtue. | 108 |
William J. Clinton | Strength and wisdom are not opposing values. | 108 |
Xi Jinping | During the long process of history, by relying on our own diligence, courage and wisdom, Chinese people have opened up a good and beautiful home where all ethnic groups live in harmony and fostered an excellent culture that never fades. | 108 |
Chris Christie | I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. | 108 |
Lapo Elkann | I love Winston Churchill. I love the wisdom he had, the sagacity. I like people who are independent-minded. People who aren't part of clans or systems, who are talented and free, and able to do things without being corrupted by the system. | 108 |
Laura Marling | I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have. | 108 |
Laurie Colwin | No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers. | 108 |
Mayim Bialik | When you're used to being prepared to reject conventional wisdom, it leaves you open to learn more. | 108 |
George Allen | I did learn that some of the things that are great for locker rooms are inappropriate for political discourse. That's a wisdom I've garnered. | 108 |
John Rhys-Davies | I'd love to spend more time on the Isle of Man. I love the anonymity of putting on a boiler suit and going down to buy parts for the compressor. And Norman Wisdom's a neighbour; I salute him occasionally. | 108 |
Richard Carmona | A grateful world, nation and cadre of surgeons general who followed in his shadow are forever indebted to Surgeon General Koop's wisdom, fortitude, integrity and selfless service. | 108 |
Richard Le Gallienne | A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom. | 108 |
Sara Teasdale | When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. | 108 |
John Bytheway | The topic 'Farm Wisdom' is not a gospel doctrine or scriptural topic, although I found considerable scriptural support for the lessons learned on the farm. | 108 |
Eleanor Roosevelt | One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. | 109 |
Marcus Aurelius | He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. | 109 |
Socrates | True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. | 109 |
Bob Marley | Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. | 109 |
Colin Powell | Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. | 109 |
George Santayana | Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. | 109 |
Jimi Hendrix | Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. | 109 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it. | 109 |
Abigail Adams | Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues. | 109 |
D. H. Lawrence | Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. | 109 |
Hal Borland | Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason. | 109 |
Lisa Randall | A musical, like most religions, provides the audience or followers with a sense of belonging. Religious services, on the other hand, with their staged performances, invigorating songs, popular wisdom and shared experience, are almost a form of community theater. | 109 |
Tom Wilson | Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. | 109 |
William Ralph Inge | It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. | 109 |
Chip Conley | Conventional wisdom suggests the primary motivator for entrepreneurs is money or wealth creation and, in fact, much of the political debate tends to center around what kind of tax or regulatory policy changes will turn corporate suits into small business adventurers overnight. | 109 |
Gary Hamel | Remarkable contributions are typically spawned by a passionate commitment to transcendent values such as beauty, truth, wisdom, justice, charity, fidelity, joy, courage and honor. | 109 |
George William Russell | We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. | 109 |
Jane Fonda | I'm now the elder in the position of doling out wisdom and trying to mend fences. | 109 |
Janet Jackson | I'm no expert. I have no psychic powers, and I sure don't possess any secret wisdom. I'm just Janet. I have strengths, weaknesses, fears, happiness, sadness. I experience joy and I experience pain. I'm highly emotional. I'm very vulnerable. | 109 |
Louie Schwartzberg | What I want to do with my filmmaking is help kids experience the truth and wisdom of nature no matter where they are, whether or not they have the opportunity to go to a national park. | 109 |
Plautus | A mouse does not rely on just one hole. | 109 |
Adrian Grenier | We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives. | 109 |
George Crabbe | Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way. | 109 |
Johnny Marr | As a youngster, I used to try to pick up any bits of wisdom about the guitar I could. It's not like now where you have books and books about every aspect of anything. Any little pearl of wisdom was welcome back then. | 109 |
Marcia Cross | What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom. | 109 |
John F. Kennedy | I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. | 110 |
Ayn Rand | The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. | 110 |
Bertrand Russell | Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. | 110 |
Francis Bacon | Wise men make more opportunities than they find. | 110 |
John Muir | In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. | 110 |
Lord Byron | Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure. | 110 |
Margaret Thatcher | To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best. | 110 |
Saint Augustine | Patience is the companion of wisdom. | 110 |
Percy Bysshe Shelley | The soul's joy lies in doing. | 110 |
Aeschylus | He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God. | 110 |
Arnold Palmer | Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience. | 110 |
Evangeline Lilly | In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth. | 110 |
Ezra Taft Benson | With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings. | 110 |
Frederick William Robertson | The Divine wisdom has given us prayer, not as a means whereby to obtain the good things of earth, but as a means whereby we learn to do without them; not as a means whereby we escape evil, but as a means whereby we become strong to meet it. | 110 |
Harold S. Geneen | It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. | 110 |
Kay Redfield Jamison | Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better. | 110 |
Leonard Nimoy | Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. | 110 |
Morihei Ueshiba | Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment. | 110 |
Nikolai Gogol | Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. | 110 |
Sam Walton | Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom. | 110 |
Wilson Mizner | To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. | 110 |
Xenophanes | Better than the strength of men and horses is our wisdom. | 110 |
Yehuda Berg | I imagine God to be like my father. My father was always the voice of certainty in my life. Certainty in the wisdom, certainty in the path, certainty always in God. For me God is certainty in everything. Certainty that everything is good and everything is God. | 110 |
Young Jeezy | I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. | 110 |
Zhuangzi | Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous. | 110 |
Alan Kay | Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. | 110 |
Cyril Connolly | Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness. | 110 |
Herb Caen | A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. | 110 |
James Dobson | There is no greater privilege in living than bringing a tiny new human being into the world and then trying to raise him or her properly during the next eighteen years. Doing that job right requires all the intelligence, wisdom, and determination you will be able to muster from day to day. | 110 |
James Hillman | It's very hard to know what wisdom is. | 110 |
Susan Orlean | I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture. | 110 |
Apollonius of Tyana | The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it. | 110 |
Harry Dean Stanton | You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact. | 110 |
Pindar | Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest. | 110 |
Shekhar Kapur | My own feelings of where I am in this world and the questions that I am asking myself, I started to explore them through the story 'Four Feathers' and through this actor called Heath Ledger. I knew that I had to find a 21-year-old who could play wisdom at the end. He's only 21 or 22, and I tested him. | 110 |
James Buchan | Saudi Arabia is a puritanical state that claims a monopoly of wisdom and virtue. | 110 |
Lin Yutang | Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. | 110 |
Jay Griffiths | If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss. | 110 |
Martin H. Fischer | Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. | 110 |
Julia Ward Howe | Theology in general seems to me a substitution of human ingenuity for divine wisdom. | 110 |
Charles Dickens | A loving heart is the truest wisdom. | 111 |
Aesop | Plodding wins the race. | 111 |
Robert Louis Stevenson | Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity. | 111 |
Joan Rivers | Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. | 111 |
Laurence Sterne | Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not. | 111 |
M. Scott Peck | Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. | 111 |
Robert Redford | When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.' | 111 |
Ron White | I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow. | 111 |
Sheri L. Dew | Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church. | 111 |
Wislawa Szymborska | I have sympathy for young people, for their growing pains, but I balk when these growing pains are pushed into the foreground, when you make these young people the only vehicles of life's wisdom. | 111 |
Andrew Ross Sorkin | The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing. | 111 |
Arthur Helps | We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. | 111 |
Ben Elton | I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous. | 111 |
Boy George | Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you can handle, and if you come out the other end with some wisdom, then it's not such a bad thing. | 111 |
Kenneth R. Miller | What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work. | 111 |
Shakti Gawain | We live in a culture that doesn't acknowledge or validate human intuition and doesn't encourage us to rely on our intuitive wisdom. | 111 |
Afrika Bambaataa | The Universal Zulu Nation stands to acknowledge wisdom, understanding, freedom, justice, and equality, peace, unity, love, and having fun, work, overcoming the negative through the positive, science, mathematics, faith, facts, and the wonders of God, whether we call him Allah, Jehovah, Yahweh, or Jah. | 111 |
Cherie Lunghi | I think it's nice to age gracefully. OK, you lose the youth, a certain stamina and dewy glow, but what you gain on the inside as a human being is wonderful: the wisdom, the acceptance and the peace of mind. It's a fair exchange. | 111 |
Julia Glass | My own life is wonderful, but if I had to live the life of someone else, I'd gladly choose that of Julia Child or Dr. Seuss: two outrageously original people, each of whom fashioned an idiosyncratic wisdom, passion for life, and sense of humor into an art form that anyone and everyone could savor. | 111 |
John Selden | No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. | 111 |
Confucius | 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. | 112 |
Colin Powell | The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny. | 112 |
Immanuel Kant | Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. | 112 |
Lord Byron | Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. | 112 |
Homer | In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare! | 112 |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | It is almost everywhere the case that soon after it is begotten the greater part of human wisdom is laid to rest in repositories. | 112 |
George Herbert | None knows the weight of another's burden. | 112 |
Ian Mckellen | The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie. | 112 |
John C. Calhoun | There is often, in the affairs of government, more efficiency and wisdom in non-action than in action. | 112 |
Lee Iacocca | Trouble shared is trouble halved. | 112 |
Margaret Fuller | It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods. | 112 |
Norman Douglas | What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? | 112 |
Orison Swett Marden | It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest. | 112 |
Plutarch | To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. | 112 |
Saadi | Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance. | 112 |
Saint Bernard | Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord. | 112 |
Vivek Wadhwa | What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. | 112 |
Willem Dafoe | There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing. | 112 |
George William Curtis | Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. | 112 |
Paul Ricoeur | This is perhaps the most profound meaning of the book of Job, the best example of wisdom. | 112 |
Solomon Ibn Gabirol | The beginning of wisdom is to desire it. | 112 |
Marie Osmond | I feel blessed - I am a woman who has been able to work in the entertainment business for five decades. I don't want to age, but I would never take back a year for the wisdom I've gained in that time. | 112 |
Ray Comfort | This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God. | 112 |
Shekhar Kapur | When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience. | 112 |
Confucius | When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. | 113 |
Socrates | True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. | 113 |
Robert Kennedy | Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live. | 113 |
Thich Nhat Hanh | We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. | 113 |
Thomas A. Edison | The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense. | 113 |
Antoine de Saint-Exupery | When you give yourself, you receive more than you give. | 113 |
Amy Grant | There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived. | 113 |
Elizabeth Taylor | It's not the having, it's the getting. | 113 |
Eric Clapton | I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men. | 113 |
Francis Quarles | Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester. | 113 |
Freeman Dyson | It has become part of the accepted wisdom to say that the twentieth century was the century of physics and the twenty-first century will be the century of biology. | 113 |
Hal Borland | The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason. | 113 |
Herman Hesse | Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. | 113 |
Kenny Rogers | There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. | 113 |
Louise L. Hay | The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities. | 113 |
Walter Scott | Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary. | 113 |
William Cowper | They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. | 113 |
William Temple | Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. | 113 |
Charles Simmons | Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next. | 113 |
Maurice Maeterlinck | It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. | 113 |
Minna Antrim | To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius. | 113 |
Robert South | The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. | 113 |
Jessye Norman | 'Swan,' by Mary Oliver. Poems and prose. Reading from this book is as if visiting a very wise friend. There is wisdom and welcoming kindness on every page. | 113 |
Joseph Barber Lightfoot | This fear of the Lord is indeed the beginning of wisdom. This consciousness of sin is the straight pathway to heaven. | 113 |
Sara Teasdale | Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation. | 113 |
John Cheever | Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. | 113 |
Lao Tzu | Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. | 114 |
Nelson Mandela | If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. | 114 |
Robert E. Lee | The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. | 114 |
William Blake | The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. | 114 |
Aesop | Please all, and you will please none. | 114 |
David Icke | Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. | 114 |
Charles Lindbergh | We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha. | 114 |
Christopher Reeve | Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes. | 114 |
Dick Cheney | The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent. | 114 |
Herman Melville | To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. | 114 |
Honore de Balzac | The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. | 114 |
John Burroughs | The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. | 114 |
Lucille Ball | In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by. | 114 |
Norman Cousins | Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. | 114 |
Samuel Smiles | We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. | 114 |
Thornton Wilder | My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. | 114 |
Donella Meadows | Ending poverty calls for humility, honesty, freedom from ideology and refusal to accept cruel simplicities about anyone's human potential. It requires listening to the wisdom and cutting the nonsense from both the Right and the Left. | 114 |
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette | Be happy. It's one way of being wise. | 114 |
Jaron Lanier | The wisdom of crowds works when the crowd is choosing the price of an ox, when there's a single numeric average. But if it's a design or something that matters, the decision is made by committee, and that's crap. You want people and groups who are able to think thoughts before they share. | 114 |
Jason Aldean | I don't think I really have any wisdom. Stay out of trouble. Good luck. Stay away from women because they will burn you, haha. | 114 |
Melissa Etheridge | I'm exploring the maturity, the wisdom that just comes from having gone around the sun 50 times. My experience is, 'Oh, I'm never really going to get it right. I'm never going to get it done. But that's not the point here.' The point is the journey. | 114 |
Sarah Kay | My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me. | 114 |
Johan Huizinga | Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. | 114 |
Franklin D. Roosevelt | There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still. | 115 |
Ravi Zacharias | Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life. | 115 |
W. Clement Stone | You are a product of your environment. So choose the environment that will best develop you toward your objective. Analyze your life in terms of its environment. Are the things around you helping you toward success - or are they holding you back? | 115 |
Charlotte Bronte | Look twice before you leap. | 115 |
F. Sionil Jose | We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom. | 115 |
Graham Greene | Morality comes with the sad wisdom of age, when the sense of curiosity has withered. | 115 |
Lucille Ball | I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. | 115 |
Norman Douglas | The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. | 115 |
Phillips Brooks | It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. | 115 |
Publilius Syrus | If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. | 115 |
Ray Kurzweil | I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago. | 115 |
William Cowper | Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. | 115 |
Archibald MacLeish | Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he has the weight and cares about the words. | 115 |
Jean Paul | Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. | 115 |
Adam Clarke | To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence. | 115 |
Joe Baca | We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy. | 115 |
John Webster | For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom. | 115 |
Coco Chanel | How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone. | 116 |
Anton Chekhov | To advise is not to compel. | 116 |
Oprah Winfrey | Turn your wounds into wisdom. | 116 |
Charles Stanley | Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. | 116 |
Herbie Hancock | The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom. | 116 |
Joseph Joubert | Never cut what you can untie. | 116 |
Saint Basil | Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water. | 116 |
William Feather | The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. | 116 |
Wilson Mizner | The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. | 116 |
Debra Winger | Never say never, but the thought of electively cutting oneself is beyond my grasp, and I also object to it politically. Denying the lines on our faces makes a comment about age and wisdom I don't care to make. | 116 |
Menander | It is not white hair that engenders wisdom. | 116 |
Buddha | Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue. | 117 |
H. L. Mencken | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. | 117 |
Charles Dickens | There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. | 117 |
Epictetus | It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. | 117 |
Epicurus | Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship. | 117 |
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking. | 117 |
Brigham Young | There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. | 117 |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. | 117 |
Evelyn Waugh | He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich. | 117 |
James Allen | The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. | 117 |
William O. Douglas | We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. | 117 |
Janet Jackson | In complete darkness, it is only knowledge and wisdom that separates us. | 117 |
Mary Astell | Although it has been said by men of more wit than wisdom, and perhaps more malice than either, that women are naturally incapable of acting prudently, or that they are necessarily determined to folly, I must by no means grant it. | 117 |
John Barrymore | I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom. | 117 |
Socrates | Wisdom begins in wonder. | 118 |
Arthur Schopenhauer | In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. | 118 |
Erma Bombeck | Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. | 118 |
Jim Rohn | Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become. | 118 |
John Muir | Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. | 118 |
Donna Brazile | If you're a Supreme Court justice, the American people have elevated you to one of the highest offices in the land out of the goodness of their heart and out of deference to your legal wisdom. You get a lifetime appointment, limitless prestige, a great office, and what I have to assume is a very comfortable chair. | 118 |
Felix Frankfurter | Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late. | 118 |
Gwyneth Paltrow | I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being? | 118 |
Jim Carrey | It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? | 118 |
Marc Andreessen | Around '93, '94, the conventional wisdom about the Internet was that it was a toy for academics and researchers. So it was very, very underestimated for about two years. | 118 |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. | 118 |
Tom Peters | Community organizing is all about building grassroots support. It's about identifying the people around you with whom you can create a common, passionate cause. And it's about ignoring the conventional wisdom of company politics and instead playing the game by very different rules. | 118 |
Walter Pater | One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most. | 118 |
Willie Geist | Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work. | 118 |
Ella Maillart | It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. | 118 |
Kim Alexis | I look at being older and gaining wisdom. I've learned to stay fit and healthy. I accept my body, my life, and my circumstances. | 118 |
Michelle Bachelet | Women's strength, women's industry, women's wisdom are humankind's greatest untapped resource. The challenge then for U.N. Women is to show our diverse constituencies how this resource can be effectively tapped in ways that benefit us all. | 118 |
Shakti Gawain | There is a universal, intelligent, life force that exists within everyone and everything. It resides within each one of us as a deep wisdom, an inner knowing. We can access this wonderful source of knowledge and wisdom through our intuition, an inner sense that tells us what feels right and true for us at any given moment. | 118 |
Jose Bergamin | To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. | 118 |
Viktor E. Frankl | A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. | 119 |
Elbert Hubbard | Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. | 119 |
Marcel Proust | We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. | 119 |
Sylvia Plath | But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. | 119 |
Baltasar Gracian | Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. | 119 |
Charles Stanley | If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. | 119 |
Elizabeth Gilbert | I don't think you can come into your wisdom until you have made mistakes on your own skin and felt them in reality of your own life. | 119 |
Havelock Ellis | Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom. | 119 |
Herbie Hancock | You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom. | 119 |
Joseph Addison | A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. | 119 |
Josh Billings | The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. | 119 |
William Penn | Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. | 119 |
Wladimir Klitschko | You lose or you win the fight - and anything in life - in your mind. I can look at how the person walks, how he speaks, his expressions. It's a wisdom. Eyes are the mirror of the soul. So you can read a lot. | 119 |
Theodore Roosevelt | Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. | 120 |
Francis Bacon | A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. | 120 |
Pablo Picasso | Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. | 120 |
William Butler Yeats | If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise. | 120 |
Aesop | Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. | 120 |
Aeschylus | Memory is the mother of all wisdom. | 120 |
Alfred North Whitehead | Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. | 120 |
Samuel Smiles | Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. | 120 |
Thomas Huxley | It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. | 120 |
Paul Ricoeur | Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature. | 120 |
Tatiana Maslany | I'm at the transition place myself, still playing high school girls but moving to a stage when I'm playing older roles and going to the places of stillness and wisdom and knowledge and weight. It's exciting and scary. | 120 |
Radhanath Swami | When spirituality is the basis of your life, it gives you the strength, wisdom and courage to surmount the many storms of life that could destroy a weaker person who doesn't have this foundation. | 120 |
Henry Ford | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. | 121 |
Margaret Thatcher | If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing. | 121 |
Robert E. Lee | We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters. | 121 |
Alexander Pope | Never find fault with the absent. | 121 |
George MacDonald | The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom. | 121 |
Ray Lewis | My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding. | 121 |
Cyril Connolly | There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. | 121 |
Plautus | Let deeds match words. | 121 |
Mary Astell | The Relation we bear to the Wisdom of the Father, the Son of His Love, gives us indeed a dignity which otherwise we have no pretence to. It makes us something, something considerable even in God's Eyes. | 121 |
H. L. Mencken | Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. | 122 |
e. e. cummings | Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. | 122 |
Leo Buscaglia | If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. | 122 |
Nigel Farage | If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom. | 122 |
Soren Kierkegaard | Once you label me you negate me. | 122 |
Henry Ward Beecher | Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. | 122 |
John Steinbeck | It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. | 122 |
William Wordsworth | Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. | 122 |
Kazuo Ishiguro | There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring. | 122 |
Laurence J. Peter | You can't cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water. Don't let yourself indulge in vain wishes. | 122 |
Samuel Smiles | Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. | 122 |
A. R. Rahman | Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom. | 122 |
John Piper | We are all responsible to Jesus first, and then, under him, to various other persons and offices. Discerning the path of love and obedience when two or more of these submissive relationships collide is a call to humble, Bible-saturated, spiritual wisdom. | 122 |
Mary Astell | Unhappy is that Grandeur which makes us too great to be good; and that Wit which sets us at a distance from true Wisdom. | 122 |
Epicurus | Let no one be slow to seek wisdom when he is young nor weary in the search of it when he has grown old. For no age is too early or too late for the health of the soul. | 123 |
George Santayana | Wisdom comes by disillusionment. | 123 |
Thich Nhat Hanh | If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering. | 123 |
Will Rogers | Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there. | 123 |
John D. Rockefeller | Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim. | 123 |
Daniel Webster | Wisdom begins at the end. | 123 |
Diogenes | Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. | 123 |
Noreena Hertz | The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. | 123 |
Ovid | First appearance deceives many. | 123 |
Philip Johnson | I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright. | 123 |
Ramakrishna | If you want to go east, don't go west. | 123 |
William Congreve | Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. | 123 |
Bob Woodward | Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story. | 123 |
James Stephens | Man works outwardly and inwardly - after rest, he has energy; after energy, he needs repose; so, when we have given instruction for a time, we need instruction and must receive it, or the spirit faints and wisdom herself grows bitter. | 123 |
Confucius | There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. | 124 |
Epicurus | Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come. | 124 |
Francis of Assisi | Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses. | 124 |
Isaac Asimov | The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. | 124 |
Michelle Obama | And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace. | 124 |
Bernie Siegel | I believe the reason we sleep is not just to allow our body to rest but that it is to allow this inner wisdom to speak to us through symbols. This includes the body or somatic problems as well as psychological ones. Dreams and drawings are useful in diagnosing physical conditions. | 124 |
Igor Stravinsky | I have learned throughout my life as a composer chiefly through my mistakes and pursuits of false assumptions, not by my exposure to founts of wisdom and knowledge. | 124 |
Kirk Hammett | I feel like I've matured more musically than I have personally. But I totally embrace what becoming older has to offer. I find the wisdom that comes with each passing year is a trip. | 124 |
Louis D. Brandeis | In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action. | 124 |
Mary Kay Ash | Every silver lining has a cloud. | 124 |
Orison Swett Marden | The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone. | 124 |
William Cowper | Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. | 124 |
Martin Jacques | Our ascendancy of the past two centuries - first Europe and then the U.S. - has bred a western-centric mentality: the West is the fount of all wisdom. We think of ourselves as open-minded, but our sense of superiority has closed our minds. We never entertained the idea that China could surpass the U.S. | 124 |
Aldous Huxley | Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. | 125 |
Nas | With age comes common sense and wisdom. | 125 |
Anthony Bourdain | I'm very proud of the Rome episode of 'No Reservations' because it violated all the conventional wisdom about making television. You're never, ever supposed to do a food or travel show in black and white. | 125 |
E. O. Wilson | We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. | 125 |
Francis Quarles | Wisdom not only gets, but once got, retains. | 125 |
John Updike | Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. | 125 |
Sheri L. Dew | For the Holy Ghost blesses us with optimism and wisdom at times of challenge that we simply cannot muster on our own. | 125 |
Jean Giraudoux | Education makes us more stupid than the brutes. A thousand voices call to us on every hand, but our ears are stopped with wisdom. | 125 |
Khalil Gibran | Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. | 126 |
Yogi Berra | If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. | 126 |
bell hooks | Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment. | 126 |
Erica Jong | No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks. | 126 |
Laurence Sterne | Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions. | 126 |
Milan Kundera | The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead. | 126 |
Plutarch | Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. | 126 |
Quintilian | When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. | 126 |
Chris Christie | Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. | 126 |
Doug Larson | Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. | 126 |
Dale Carnegie | Applause is a receipt, not a bill. | 201 |
Ansel Adams | In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. | 201 |
Michel de Montaigne | We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. | 201 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. | 201 |
Yogi Berra | You can observe a lot by watching. | 201 |
Alfred North Whitehead | Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows. | 201 |
Baltasar Gracian | Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. | 201 |
Horace | A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. | 201 |
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel | Novels are the Socratic dialogues of our time. Practical wisdom fled from school wisdom into this liberal form. | 201 |
William Penn | He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care. | 201 |
Edmund Burke | But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint. | 202 |
Antonin Scalia | If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world. | 202 |
James A. Garfield | All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. | 202 |
John Burroughs | The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. | 202 |
Morihei Ueshiba | When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. | 202 |
Thomas Huxley | In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them. | 202 |
will.i.am | If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it. | 202 |
John Henry Newman | A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise. | 202 |
Plautus | Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired. | 202 |
Joshua Foer | Someday in the distant cyborg future, when our internal and external memories fully merge, we may come to possess infinite knowledge. But that's not the same thing as wisdom. | 202 |
Benjamin Franklin | The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. | 203 |
Khalil Gibran | Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. | 203 |
Gilbert K. Chesterton | Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache. | 203 |
Rabindranath Tagore | Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young. | 203 |
Euripides | Cleverness is not wisdom. | 203 |
William Osler | The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow. | 203 |
Anthony Hopkins | I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom. | 203 |
Brigitte Bardot | I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals. | 203 |
Daisaku Ikeda | The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society. | 203 |
Howard Rheingold | Personal computers were created by some teenagers in garages because the, the wisdom of the computer industry was that people didn't want these little toys on their desk. | 203 |
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield | In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. | 203 |
Tony Campolo | What if Barack Obama established a Presidential Advisory Committee that would meet once every couple of months, bringing together the former presidents for a conference in order to seek their collective wisdom? There is a wealth of experience in former presidents that generally goes untapped. | 203 |
Confucius | They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. | 204 |
George S. Patton | Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. | 204 |
Jean-Jacques Rousseau | What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? | 204 |
Saint Teresa of Avila | All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted. | 204 |
Edward Young | The weak have remedies, the wise have joys; superior wisdom is superior bliss. | 204 |
Eliot Spitzer | After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. | 204 |
Elizabeth Wurtzel | Age is a terrible avenger. The lessons of life give you so much to work with, but by the time you've got all this great wisdom, you don't get to be young anymore. | 204 |
Francis Collins | I'm always feeling like I'm lacking wisdom. This reassurance that one can ask God for that and it will happen is certainly reassuring to me. | 204 |
Friedrich Schiller | They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom. | 204 |
Ray Kurzweil | Even by common wisdom, there seem to be both people and objects in my dream that are outside myself, but clearly they were created in myself and are part of me, they are mental constructs in my own brain. | 204 |
Stephen Colbert | Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow. | 204 |
William S. Burroughs | Thinking is not enough. There is no final enough of wisdom, experience - any... thing. | 204 |
Bertrand Russell | To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. | 205 |
Leonardo da Vinci | It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end. | 205 |
Sophocles | Much wisdom often goes with fewest words. | 205 |
Alice Walker | Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom. | 205 |
Bertolt Brecht | Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. | 205 |
Bryant H. McGill | Suffering is one of life's great teachers. | 205 |
Doris Lessing | Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. | 205 |
Doug Larson | Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. | 205 |
Plautus | Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability. | 205 |
Jane Smiley | If to live is to progress, if you are lucky, from foolishness to wisdom, then to write novels is to broadcast the various stages of your foolishness. | 205 |
Martin Filler | As with many other folk beliefs, 'feng-shui' undoubtedly incorporates some scientifically correct observation or received wisdom based on direct experience of natural phenomena; but it needs to be dealt with skeptically as a credible system of thought. Some feng-shui prescriptions can certainly lead to desirable results. | 205 |
Benjamin Franklin | Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. | 206 |
Josh Billings | Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. | 206 |
Milan Kundera | The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. | 206 |
Peter Capaldi | At 17 years old, STG took me under its wing and shared its resources and wisdom with me, even allowing me to take part in a show at the Edinburgh Festival. Without STG and the Ramshorn Theatre, I would not have found access to the world of drama that I later made my profession. | 206 |
Thomas Paine | War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes. | 207 |
Sophocles | Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. | 207 |
Helen Mirren | When you're young, you wonder what all these old people are droning on about, trying to impart their wisdom. It's not relevant to you because being young is such a specific thing. Thank God for that. Thank God for the young people who go out and demonstrate against rampant capitalism or whatever. | 207 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. | 207 |
Andrew Jackson | The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. | 208 |
Dwight D. Eisenhower | The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. | 208 |
Richard Dawkins | It's a horrible idea that God, this paragon of wisdom and knowledge, power, couldn't think of a better way to forgive us our sins than to come down to Earth in his alter ego as his son and have himself hideously tortured and executed so that he could forgive himself. | 208 |
Desiderius Erasmus | It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst. | 208 |
William Hazlitt | The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. | 208 |
Yoko Ono | Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions. | 208 |
Francis Bacon | It is impossible to love and to be wise. | 209 |
Ludwig Wittgenstein | It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.' | 209 |
W. Clement Stone | Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. | 209 |
Ambrose Bierce | When you doubt, abstain. | 209 |
Josh Billings | Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. | 209 |
Deepak Chopra | In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected, everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer. | 210 |
George Eliot | Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. | 210 |
Joel Osteen | God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. | 210 |
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. | Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. | 210 |
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe | Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. | 210 |
C. S. Lewis | Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. | 211 |
John F. Kennedy | The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. | 211 |
Arnold Schwarzenegger | Start wide, expand further, and never look back. | 211 |
Denis Waitley | You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. | 211 |
Friedrich Schiller | Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate. | 211 |
Jean Cocteau | The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness. | 211 |
Michael Caine | For all my education, accomplishments, and so called 'wisdom'... I can't fathom my own heart. | 211 |
Nhat Hanh | We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. | 211 |
Sam Harris | One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced. | 211 |
Trent Reznor | In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. | 211 |
Socrates | I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. | 212 |
Benjamin Disraeli | Man is only great when he acts from passion. | 212 |
Charles Caleb Colton | There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. | 212 |
Samuel Johnson | To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. | 213 |
Will Durant | Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom. | 213 |
Yehuda Berg | Kabbalah is all about change. It isn't about being proud of our good qualities: the wisdom is about transforming our darkness into light. | 213 |
Vladimir Putin | The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades. | 214 |
Virat Kohli | A lot of people tell me a lot of things about my conduct, my game, my future... but I try to stay away from their words of wisdom. I don't let it distract me. On the field, you will be facing the ball alone. If you fail, you will the only one to blame. So, you should be the one deciding for yourself. | 214 |
Henry Ward Beecher | We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. | 214 |
Sophocles | If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink. | 214 |
Anatole France | I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. | 214 |
Ted Turner | I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy. | 214 |
Madeleine M. Kunin | Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes. | 214 |
Lao Tzu | In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present. | 215 |
Charles Spurgeon | After many years of great mercy, after tasting of the powers of the world to come, we still are so weak, so foolish; but, oh! when we get away from self to God, there all is truth and purity and holiness, and our heart finds peace, wisdom, completeness, delight, joy, victory. | 215 |
Sigmund Freud | Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone. | 215 |
Will Rogers | You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is. | 215 |
Aeschylus | Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. | 215 |
Rumi | Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. | 216 |
Herbert Hoover | Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. | 216 |
Carly Fiorina | To build a great company, which is a CEO's job, sometimes you have to stand up against conventional wisdom. | 216 |
Charles Caleb Colton | Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance. | 216 |
Mikhail Gorbachev | Surely, God on high has not refused to give us enough wisdom to find ways to bring us an improvement in relations between the two great nations on earth. | 216 |
Timothy Noah | Nothing energizes me more than to burrow myself under a pile of received wisdom and emerge triumphant with the truth. | 216 |
Edmund Burke | Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together. | 217 |
Plato | The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. | 218 |
George Lucas | There should be a point to movies. Sure, you're giving people a diversion from the cold world for a bit, but at the same time, you pass on some facts and rules and maybe a little bit of wisdom. | 218 |
Euripides | Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. | 219 |
James Madison | Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. | 219 |
Michel de Montaigne | It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor. | 219 |
Jane Fonda | One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go. | 219 |
Benjamin Franklin | When in doubt, don't. | 220 |
Thomas Huxley | The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. | 220 |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld | It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. | 221 |
Carl Sandburg | Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. | 221 |
Georg C. Lichtenberg | We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. | 221 |
Joseph Addison | Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. | 221 |
Buddha | I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. | 222 |
Barack Obama | No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. | 223 |
Robert Frost | A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. | 223 |
T. S. Eliot | Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? | 223 |
William Blake | The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure. | 223 |
Sophocles | Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way. | 223 |
Adlai E. Stevenson | That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. | 223 |
Monica Johnson | God knows and sees all. His wisdom and knowledge far outweighs mankind, and whether or not people ever recognize it - He is the creator. He is the giver of life, and only He has the power to take it away. That's why its imperative to submit to Him. | 223 |
Ambrose Bierce | Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. | 224 |
Benjamin Franklin | Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of. | 225 |
Francis Bacon | There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. | 225 |
Napoleon Bonaparte | The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. | 225 |
Horace | Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. | 225 |
Tom Robbins | Wit and playfulness represent a desperately serious transcendence of evil. Humor is both a form of wisdom and a means of survival. | 225 |
John Wooden | It isn't what you do, but how you do it. | 226 |
Benjamin Franklin | The doors of wisdom are never shut. | 301 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. | 301 |
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. | For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later. | 301 |
Ben Carson | In my own personal life, God plays a great role in the risk, because I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything. | 301 |
Dylan Moran | I don't know that you're able to measure your aggregate wisdom as you go through life. I can't say that I ever feel that I'm sitting on top of a growing mound of wisdom. | 301 |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld | Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them. | 302 |
John Updike | The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education. | 302 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. | 303 |
George Bernard Shaw | Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance. | 303 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. | 303 |
Bertrand Russell | Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. | 304 |
Euripides | Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise. | 304 |
Khalil Gibran | Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. | 305 |
Euripides | Leave no stone unturned. | 305 |
Michel de Montaigne | The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. | 305 |
Aeschylus | Wisdom comes alone through suffering. | 305 |
Henry Miller | Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. | 305 |
John Kenneth Galbraith | One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know. | 305 |
Buddha | Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. | 307 |
Thomas Jefferson | I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. | 308 |
Honore de Balzac | Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. | 308 |
Mitt Romney | Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution. | 308 |
William Butler Yeats | Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation. | 309 |
Aeschylus | It is good even for old men to learn wisdom. | 309 |
Herbie Hancock | Without wisdom, the future has no meaning, no valuable purpose. | 309 |
Khalil Gibran | A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. | 310 |
Plato | Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. | 310 |
George Eliot | More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. | 310 |
Henry Rollins | While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline. | 310 |
Samuel Johnson | Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise. | 310 |
Bill Cosby | Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made. | 310 |
Mason Cooley | If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. | 310 |
Ben Carson | You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important. | 311 |
George Santayana | The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy. | 312 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. | 312 |
Benjamin Franklin | Honesty is the best policy. | 313 |
Confucius | Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. | 313 |
Saint Augustine | Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. | 313 |
John Updike | I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. | 313 |
Orison Swett Marden | Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. | 313 |
Michael Leunig | A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. | 313 |
Ben Carson | I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom. | 314 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. | 315 |
Charles Caleb Colton | Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. | 315 |
Nelson Mandela | Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. | 316 |
Thomas Fuller | An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with. | 317 |
Albert Einstein | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. | 318 |
Plato | There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. | 318 |
John F. Kennedy | When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. | 319 |
Thomas Jefferson | So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. | 320 |
Mary J. Blige | I always want to be a messenger, a person that, you know, that's not afraid to pass on wisdom. | 320 |
Robert Kiyosaki | My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete. | 320 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever; no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself; no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself. | 321 |
Ben Carson | I pray before I go into the operating room for every case, and I ask him to give me wisdom, to help me to know what to do - and not only for operating, but for everything. | 321 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. | 322 |
Benjamin Disraeli | The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. | 322 |
Henry Ward Beecher | What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away. | 322 |
Benjamin Franklin | There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. | 323 |
Aristotle | Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. | 324 |
William Blake | What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children. | 326 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing. | 401 |
Khalil Gibran | The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. | 402 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. | 404 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Wisdom is found only in truth. | 405 |
Terry Pratchett | By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom. | 405 |
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe | Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. | 407 |
Anne Lamott | Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit. | 407 |
George Eliot | In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. | 409 |
Khalil Gibran | Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. | 410 |
Martin Luther King, Jr. | Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. | 411 |
John F. Kennedy | The time to repair the roof is when the sun is shining. | 414 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. | 414 |
Mason Cooley | The wisdom of age: don't stop walking. | 414 |
Albert Einstein | Imagination is more important than knowledge. | 415 |
Robert Frost | The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. | 415 |
Joyce Meyer | I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God. | 415 |
Sophocles | A short saying often contains much wisdom. | 416 |
Ted Cruz | It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier. | 416 |
Terry Pratchett | Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom. | 417 |
Mason Cooley | At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. | 420 |
Plato | Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. | 425 |
Deepak Chopra | In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. | 425 |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld | However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention. | 426 |
P. J. O'Rourke | I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom. | 503 |
Thomas Jefferson | Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. | 504 |
Alexander Pope | Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. | 504 |
Henry David Thoreau | It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. | 506 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | We are wiser than we know. | 507 |
Ezra Taft Benson | Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. | 507 |
Benjamin Franklin | Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. | 509 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. | 509 |
Marcus Tullius Cicero | Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. | 509 |
Lord Byron | If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom. | 511 |
Victor Hugo | Habit is the nursery of errors. | 513 |
Victor Hugo | Wisdom is a sacred communion. | 514 |
Mahatma Gandhi | It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. | 517 |
Francis Bacon | There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health. | 517 |
Ezra Taft Benson | In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home! | 519 |
Joyce Meyer | Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense. | 525 |
Francois de La Rochefoucauld | We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. | 526 |
Plato | Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. | 602 |
Thomas Carlyle | I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. | 609 |
Ezra Taft Benson | Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom. | 611 |
Albert Einstein | The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. | 612 |
Aristotle | The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. | 612 |
Hillary Clinton | I learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process, the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done. | 615 |
Thomas Carlyle | In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. | 617 |
Zig Ziglar | Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' | 621 |
Henry David Thoreau | All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. | 704 |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca | Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color. | 707 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. | 709 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. | 710 |
Maya Angelou | I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. | 810 |
Friedrich Nietzsche | Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? | 825 |
Henry David Thoreau | Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. | 923 |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. | 1006 |
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