The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.Socrates
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
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.
Confucius
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
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.
Nelson Mandela
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
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.
Khalil Gibran
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Henry Ward Beecher
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.
Aldous Huxley
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.
Horace
Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice.
Anton Chekhov
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin Disraeli
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life.
Lord Byron
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
Mason Cooley
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis Bacon
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?
Jim Carrey
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
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.
John Steinbeck
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
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.
Josh Billings
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Abraham Maslow
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
Jean Paul
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Ron White
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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.
Moliere
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.
Joan Rivers
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.
Joey Adams
It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.
Logan P. Smith
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
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.
Teri Garr
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
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.
Sara Teasdale
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
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.
Akhenaton
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
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