Wisdom Quotes

Silence is a source of great strength.

Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.

Love is a serious mental disease.

I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it.

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

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

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

Sometimes one likes foolish people for their folly, better than wise people for their wisdom.

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few desires

Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.

I do not at all understand the mystery of grace - only that it meets us where we are but does not leave us where it found us.

Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws.

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

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

People do not lack strength; they lack will.

If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

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

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

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

No army can withstand the strength of an idea whose time has come.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime.

The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.

How glorious it is - and also how painful - to be an exception.

Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love.

I am not afraid of an army of lions led by a sheep; I am afraid of an army of sheep led by a lion.

I ask not for any crownBut that which all may win;Nor try to conquer any worldExcept the one within.

Respond intelligently even to unintelligent treatment.

If you live each day as it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right

Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one that inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it.

You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

Before you embark on a journey of revenge, dig two graves.

Saying nothing... sometimes says the most.

I'm bad and I'm going to hell, and I don't care. I'd rather be in hell than anywhere where you are.

Perhaps the logical conclusion of everyone looking the same is everyone thinking the same.

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

I feel like a wet seed wild in the hot blind earth.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.

To be wronged is nothing, unless you continue to remember it.

The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.

The only way to have a friend is to be one.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

Wise? No, I simply learned to think.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom.

Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness.Listen to it carefully.

It is wise to direct your anger towards problems - not people; to focus your energies on answers - not excuses.

Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

All that happens means something; nothing you do is ever insignificant.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn't, than live as if there isn't and to die to find out that there is.

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

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

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.

Don't compromise yourself. You are all you've got.

To wisely live your life, you don't need to know muchJust remember two main rules for the beginning:You better starve, than eat whateverAnd better be alone, than with whoever.

It was miraculous. It was almost no trick at all, he saw, to turn vice into virtue and slander into truth, impotence into abstinence, arrogance into humility, plunder into philanthropy, thievery into honor, blasphemy into wisdom, brutality into patriotism, and sadism into justice. Anybody could do it; it required no brains at all. It merely required no character.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

If the freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter.

Knowledge makes a man unfit to be a slave.

How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.

The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

There is more to life than increasing its speed.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely.

We have a right to believe whatever we want, but not everything we believe is right.

A wise woman puts a grain of sugar into everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her.

Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you.

Truth is like the sun. You can shut it out for a time, but it ain't going away.

Our job is to love others without stopping to inquire whether or not they are worthy. That is not our business and, in fact, it is nobody's business. What we are asked to do is to love, and this love itself will render both ourselves and our neighbors worthy.

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

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

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. They want rain without thunder and lightning. They want the ocean without the awful roar of its many waters. This struggle may be a moral one; or it may be a physical one; or it may be both moral and physical; but it must be a struggle.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

It is strange how often a heart must be broken Before the years can make it wise.

Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.

Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you to the heart: the one to slander you and the other to get the news to you.

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

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

There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves.

Criticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

Truth does not become more true by virtue of the fact that the entire world agrees with it, nor less so even if the whole world disagrees with it.

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Visualize this thing you want. See it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blueprint and begin.

Every person has the power to make others happy. Some do it simply by entering a room others by leaving the room. Some individuals leave trails of gloom; others, trails of joy. Some leave trails of hate and bitterness; others, trails of love and harmony. Some leave trails of cynicism and pessimism; others trails of faith and optimism. Some leave trails of criticism and resignation; others trails of gratitude and hope. What kind of trails do you leave?

Before you speak, listen. Before you write, think. Before you spend, earn. Before you invest, investigate. Before you criticize, wait. Before you pray, forgive. Before you quit, try. Before you retire, save. Before you die, give.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

Do not let what you cannot do interfere with what you can do.

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment, neither too soon nor too late. You don't have to like it... it's just easier if you do.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.This was said by gene wilder ... what does it mean ?

To live for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.

If you reveal your secrets to the wind you should not blame the wind for revealing them to the trees.

So wise so young, they say, do never live long.

I know what I have given you... I do not know what you have received.

Look not mournfully into the past, it comes not back again. Wisely improve the present, it is thine. Go forth to meet the shadowy future without fear and with a manly heart.

Death does not concern us, because as long as we exist, death is not here. And when it does come, we no longer exist.

Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.

I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.

If we can really understand the problem, the answer will come out of it, because the answer is not separate from the problem.

He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can't make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.

Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing

If a commission by an earthly king is considered a honor, how can a commission by a Heavenly King be considered a sacrifice?

It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.

The first peace, which is the most important, is that which comes within the souls of people when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells the Great Spirit, and that this center is really everywhere, it is within each of us.

Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.

Be good and you will be lonely.

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

When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

The only Zen you can find on the tops of mountains is the Zen you bring up there.

There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them.

My choice early in life was either to be a piano player in a whorehouse or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whispers of the gods.

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives.

Do not be impatient with your seemingly slow progress. Do not try to run faster than you presently can. If you are studying, reflecting and trying, you are making progress whether you are aware of it or not. A traveler walking the road in the darkness of night is still going forward. Someday, some way, everything will break open, like the natural unfolding of a rosebud.

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.

The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.

Information is not knowledge.

Language... has created the word 'loneliness' to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word 'solitude' to express the glory of being alone.

A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.

A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting.

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

We are told to let our light shine, and if it does, we won't need to tell anybody it does. Lighthouses don't fire cannons to call attention to their shining- they just shine.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

Read, every day, something no one else is reading. Think, every day, something no one else is thinking. Do, every day, something no one else would be silly enough to do. It is bad for the mind to continually be part of unanimity.

After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked"”as I am surprisingly often"”why I bother to get up in the mornings.

Life itself is a quotation.

Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do

Silence does not always mark wisdom.

There was never a good war, or a bad peace.

If you're not a liberal at twenty you have no heart, if you're not a conservative at forty, you have no brain.

A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

Adventure is not outside man; it is within.

The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

A friend who is far away is sometimes much nearer than one who is at hand. Is not the mountain far more awe-inspiring and more clearly visible to one passing through the valley than to those who inhabit the mountain?

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

The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.

More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

The World is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion.

I have made a ceaseless effort not to ridicule, not to bewail, not to scorn human actions, but to understand them.

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

It is not so much our friends' help that helps us as the confident knowledge that they will help us.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

People are like dirt. They can either nourish you and help you grow as a person or they can stunt your growth and make you wilt and die.

During times of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act

He will win who knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces.

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

It is beautiful to express love and even more beautiful to feel it.

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

Fear not for the future, weep not for the past.

The earth does not belong to man, man belongs to the earth. All things are connected like the blood that unites us all. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished.

We must learn our limits. We are all something, but none of us are everything.

We learn more by looking for the answer to a question and not finding it than we do from learning the answer itself.

There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it.

No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.

Technology is the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.

When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust, and hostility to evaporate.

Abundance of knowledge does not teach men to be wise.

Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and make a new ending.

The Master of Lifes been good to me. He has given me strength to face past illnesses, and victory in the face of defeat. He has given me life and joy where other saw oblivion. He Has given new purpose to live for, new services to render and old wounds to heal. Life and love go on, let the music play.

If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy.

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than 'try to be a little kinder.'

In a country where the sole employer is the State, opposition means death by slow starvation. The old principle: who does not work shall not eat, has been replaced by a new one: who does not obey shall not eat.

Death is the only wise advisor that we have. Whenever you feel, as you always do, that everything is going wrong and you're about to be annihilated, turn to your death and ask if that is so. Your death will tell you that you're wrong; that nothing really matters outside its touch. Your death will tell you, 'I haven't touched you yet.

You know you're getting old when the candles cost more than the cake.

When you have a bad day, a really bad day, try to treat the world better than it treated you.

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.

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.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man's mind can get both provocation and privacy.

Love is energy of life.

To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.

It is a mistake to regard age as a downhill grade toward dissolution. The reverse is true. As one grows older, one climbs with surprising strides.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart.

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

It is more important to know where you are going than to get there quickly. Do not mistake activity for achievement. Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs, therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity or undue depression in adversity.

The wise man in the storm prays to God, not for safety from danger, but deliverance from fear

Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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.

If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself, if you want to eliminate the suffering in the world, then eliminate all that is negative in yourself. Truly, the greatest gift you have to give is that of your own self-transformation.

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.

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law

A nail is driven out by another nail. Habit is overcome by habit.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Love is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.

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

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

Time you enjoy wasting, was not wasted.

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

Small is the number of people who see with their eyes and think with their minds.

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.

Life is the art of drawing without an eraser.

Business, you know, may bring you money, but friendship hardly ever does.

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

Middle-age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.

It takes more courage to reveal insecurities than to hide them, more strength to relate to people then to dominate them, more 'manhood' to abide by thought-out principles rather than blind reflex. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles and an immature mind.

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.

Anyone can find fault. It is the wise person who finds that which encourages another in the turmoils and strifes of the day.

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give.

Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, and riches take wings. Only one thing endures and that is character.

Knowledge can be communicated, but wisdom cannot. A man can find it, he can live it, he can be filled and sustained by it, but he cannot utter or teach it.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character. Love is my name.

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

We must become the change we want to see

It is easier to stay out than get out.

I offer you peace. I offer you love. I offer you friendship. I see your beauty. I hear your need. I feel your feelings. My wisdom flows from the Highest Source. I salute that Source in you. Let us work together for unity and love.

The human soul has still greater need of the ideal than of the real. It is by the real that we exist; it is by the ideal that we live.

Life, liberty, and property do not exist because men have made laws. On the contrary, it was the fact that life, liberty, and property existed beforehand that caused men to make laws in the first place.

When you have a great and difficult task, something perhaps almost impossible, if you only work a little at a time, every day a little, suddenly the work will finish itself.

If you write for God you will reach many men and bring them joy. If you write for men—you may make some money and you may give someone a little joy and you may make a noise in the world, for a little while. If you write for yourself, you can read what you yourself have written and after ten minutes you will be so disgusted that you will wish that you were dead.

To understand is to perceive patterns.

The truth is that all men having power ought to be mistrusted.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

If a man has any greatness in him, it comes to light, not in one flamboyant hour, but in the ledger of his daily work.

The great man is he who, in the midst of the crowd, keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.

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.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

... To know and love one other human being is the root of all wisdom.

Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state wants to live at the expense of everyone.

I visited many places, Some of them quite Exotic and far away, But I always returned to myself.

History records that the money changers have used every form of abuse, intrigue, deceit, and violent means possible to maintain their control over governments by controlling money and it's issuance.

Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

I'd rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.

If you have it and you know you have it, then you have it. If you have it and don't know you have it, you don't have it. If you don't have it but you think you have it, then you have it.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us.

You can do anything, but you can't do everything

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love.

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple. Take it and copy it.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

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.

The main hope of a nation lies in the proper education of its youth

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

Difficult times have helped me to understand better than before, how infinitely rich and beautiful life is in every way, and that so many things that one goes worrying about are of no importance whatsoever.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Little by little does the trick.

Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Life is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

The tendency to claim God as an ally for our partisan value and ends is the source of all religious fanaticism.

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.

We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Home is not where you live but where they understand you.

That which causes us trials shall yield us triumph: and that which make our hearts ache shall fill us with gladness. The only true happiness is to learn, to advance, and to improve: which could not happen unless we had commenced with error, ignorance, and imperfection. We must pass through the darkness, to reach the light.

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

It is the hour to be drunken! to escape being the martyred slaves of time, be ceaselessly drunk. On wine, on poetry, or on virtue, as you wish.

The more light you allow within you, the brighter the world you live in will be.

The most useful piece of learning for the uses of life is to unlearn what is untrue.

Men in general judge more from appearances than from reality. All men have eyes, but few have the gift of penetration.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

The body is your temple. Keep it pure and clean for the soul to reside in.

I know the dark delight of being strange, The penalty of difference in the crowd, The loneliness of wisdom among fools...

Avoid him who talks sweetly before you but tries to ruin you behind your back, for he is like a pitcher of poison with milk on top.

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

The only thing that is more expensive than education is ignorance.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

We are called to be architects of the future, not its victims.

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.

The more a man knows, the more he forgives.

Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

The highest endeavor of the mind, and the highest virtue, it to understand things by intuition.

Risk! Risk anything! Care no more for the opinions of others, for those voices. Do the hardest thing on earth for you. Act for yourself. Face the truth.

You cannot get ahead while you are getting even.

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove lid again and that is well but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.

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.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

You can use all the quantitative data you can get, but you still have to distrust it and use your own intelligence and judgment.

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow: Who would search for pearls must dive below.

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.

Books do furnish a room.

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

Before you speak, ask yourself, is it kind, is it necessary, is it true, does it improve the silence?

There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Worldly wisdom teaches that it is better for reputation to fail conventionally than to succeed unconventionally.

Worry is interest paid on trouble before it comes due.

Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government...

No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

Government cannot make man richer, but it can make him poorer.

There is no education like adversity.

Women desire six things: They want their husbands to be brave, wise, rich, generous, obedient to wife, and lively in bed.

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.

I am on a drug. It's called Charlie Sheen. It's not available. If you try it once, you will die. Your face will melt off and your children will weep over your exploded body.

It isn't what they say about you, it's what they whisper.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

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

Do not plan for ventures before finishing what's at hand.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

Love conquers all things.

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

We need to find the courage to say no to the things and people that are not serving us if we want to rediscover ourselves and live our lives with authenticity.

I knew that good like bad becomes a routine, that the temporary tends to endure, that what is external permeates to the inside, and that the mask, given time, comes to be the face itself.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.

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

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

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

If you risk nothing, then you risk everything.

Dogs are wise. They crawl away into a quiet corner and lick their wounds and do not rejoin the world until they are whole once more.

The more unintelligent a man is, the less mysterious existence seems to him.

O Lord, help me not to despise or oppose what I do not understand.

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

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

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in a few.

I assure you, an educated fool is more foolish than an uneducated one.

They do not love that do not show their love. The course of true love never did run smooth. Love is a familiar. Love is a devil. There is no evil angel but Love.

Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.

To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

I loathe a friend whose gratitude grows old, a friend who takes his friend's prosperity but will not voyage with him in his grief

The employer generally gets the employees he deserves.

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

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

Oh, my ways are strange ways and new ways and old ways, And deep ways and steep ways and high ways and low, I'm at home and at ease on a track that I know not, And restless and lost on a road that I know.

Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.

Death comes equally to us all, and makes us all equal when it comes.

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

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Changing the world begins with the very personal process of changing yourself, the only place you can begin is where you are, and the only time you can begin is always now.

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.

A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.

Knighthood lies above eternity; it doesn’t live off fame, but rather deeds.

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

It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion.

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

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.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

The central task of education is to implant a will and facility for learning; it should produce not learned but learning people. The truly human society is a learning society, where grandparents, parents, and children are students together.

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

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

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

In the absence of love, there is nothing worth fighting for.

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

Its language is a language which the soul alone understands, but which the soul can never translate.

The hardest thing in life to learn is which bridge to cross and which to burn.

The wise only possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.

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.

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

The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly.

Be always sure you are right - then go ahead.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different.

Be the change you want to see.

Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.

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

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.

Success in life is the ability to move from one mistake to another without loosing enthusiasm.

The possession of anything begins in the mind.

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

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

Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.

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.

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.

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

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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.

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place."

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.

Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.

Love doesn't make the world go 'round. Love is what makes the ride worthwhile.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.

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.

Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.

Purity of speech, of the mind, of the senses, and of a compassionate heart are needed by one who desires to rise to the divine platform.

To dream anything that you want to dream. That's the beauty of the human mind. To do anything that you want to do. That is the strength of the human will. To trust yourself to test your limits. That is the courage to succeed.

The purpose of life is a life of purpose.

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

We rely upon the poets, the philosophers, and the playwrights to articulate what most of us can only feel, in joy or sorrow. They illuminate the thoughts for which we only grope; they give us the strength and balm we cannot find in ourselves. Whenever I feel my courage wavering, I rush to them. They give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resiliance to push on.

Wise are those who learn that the bottom line doesn't always have to be their top priority.

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.

Wisdom is the daughter of experience

The technology at the leading edge changes so rapidly that you have to keep current after you get out of school. I think probably the most important thing is having good fundamentals.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

It is well to be up before daybreak, for such habits contribute to health, wealth, and wisdom.

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

I would not send a poor girl into the world, ignorant of the snares that beset her path; nor would I watch and guard her, till, deprived of self-respect and self-reliance, she lost the power or the will to watch and guard herself.

One friend in a lifetime is much, two are many, three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.

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

Sometimes the answer to prayer is not that it changes life, but that it changes you.

All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys.

Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

The world is a fairy tale; we are its guardians.

I only know one thing, and that is I know nothing

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

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches as to conceive how others can be in want.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

A single conversation with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

You must learn from the mistakes of others. You can't possibly live long enough to make them all yourself.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Blessed are they who have nothing to say and who cannot be persuaded to say it.

Remember there are no mistakes, only lessons. Love yourself, trust your choices, and everything is possible

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.

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.

Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.

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

The surprising thing about young fools is how many survive to become old fools.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behooves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; Skill is knowing how to do it, and Virtue is doing it.

The deeper thought is, the taller it becomes.

It is beautiful to talk about beautiful things and even more beautiful to silently gaze at them.

The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.

It is better to understand little than to misunderstand a lot.

Little minds have little worries, big minds have no time for worries.

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.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.

The mother-child relationship is paradoxical and, in a sense, tragic. It requires the most intense love on the mother's side, yet this very love must help the child grow away from the mother, and to become fully independent.

In solitude the mind gains strength and learns to lean upon itself.

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.

We hear only our own voices, still echoes returning to our emptiness.

The people and circumstances around me do not make me what I am, they reveal who I am

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

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.

Do not reveal what you have thought upon doing, but by wise council keep it secret being determined to carry it into execution.

He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant.

Many receive advice, few profit by it.

Your children need your presence more than your presents.

He that is not handsome at 20, nor strong at 30, nor rich at 40, nor wise at 50, will never be handsome, strong, rich or wise.

The old - like children - talk to themselves, for they have reached that hopeless wisdom of experience which knows that though one were to cry it in the streets to multitudes, or whisper it in the kiss to one's beloved, the only ears that can ever hear one's secrets are one's own!

How many unuttered words died in the heads of those for whom a word was too expensive.

Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.

We forget old stories, but those stories remain the same.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

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.

Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads.

Oceania was at war with Eurasia; therefore Oceania had always been at war with Eurasia.

Children will not remember you for the material things you provided but for the feeling that you cherished them.

Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil.

Do not crush the flowers of wisdom with the hobnail boots of cynicism.

As a vessel is known by the sound, whether it be cracked or not; so men are proved, by their speeches, whether they be wise or foolish.

What is strength without a double share of wisdom?

Individuality is freedom lived.

Possible is more a matter of attitude, A matter of decision, to choose Among the impossible possibilities, When one sound opportunity Becomes a possible solution.

Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.

Music, the greatest good that mortals know and all of heaven we have hear below.

Many roads lead to the path, but basically there are only two: reason and practice.

Did you ever think that making a speech on economy is a lot like pissing down your leg? It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.

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

Sometimes it is more important to discover what one cannot do, than what one can do.

No man can think clearly when his fists are clenched.

The time is always right to do what is right.

The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.

The question of common sense is always: 'what is it good for?' - a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

No man is wise enough by himself.

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.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Infinity is the end. End without infinity is but a new beginning.

He that cannot obey, cannot command.

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

In the lie of truth lies the truth.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

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.

Science has to be understood in its broadest sense, as a method for comprehending all observable reality, and not merely as an instrument for acquiring specialized knowledge.

The more you know the less you need to say.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Every man is wise when attacked by a mad dog; fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

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.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

The wise learn many things from their enemies.

No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.

Intuition becomes increasingly valuable in the new information society precisely because there is so much data.

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.

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

Love, the quest; marriage, the conquest; divorce, the inquest.

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.

We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance. Only by learning to love one another can our world be saved. Only love can conquer all.

Friendship's the wine of life: but friendship new... is neither strong nor pure.

To have a good enemy, choose a friend; he knows where to strike.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

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

Proverbs are short sentences drawn from long experience.

You musn't force sex to do the work of love or love to do the work of sex.

I would prefer as friend a good man ignorant than one more clever who is evil too.

The African-America n experience is one of the most important threads in the American tapestry.

A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.

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

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

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

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom.

We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

Those who know how to win are much more numerous than those who know how to make proper use of their victories.

Our dignity is not in what we do, but what we understand.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.

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

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

Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

True religion is real living; living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness.

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

Every man of genius sees the world at a different angle from his fellows, and there is his tragedy.

No government ought to be without censors; and where the press is free no one ever will.

Be wise with speed; a fool at forty is a fool indeed.

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.

Compromise makes a good umbrella, but a poor roof; it is temporary expedient, often wise in party politics, almost sure to be unwise in statesmanship.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

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

What the heart knows today the head will understand tomorrow.

Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.

He that is good, will infallibly become better, and he that is bad, will as certainly become worse; for vice, virtue and time are three things that never stand still.

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

Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people.

We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have

The essence of Government is power; and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

The people must fight for their laws as for their walls.

A child's hand in yours - what tenderness and power it arouses. You are instantly the very touchstone of wisdom and strength.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

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

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.

Moderation in all things.

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.

Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as the embryo rests deep within the womb, wisdom is hidden by selfish desire.

If one has not given everything, one has given nothing.

A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.

Much of the wisdom of one age, is the folly of the next.

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

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

The goal of all life is death.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning, and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.

My mother used to say, 'He who angers you, conquers you!' But my mother was a saint.

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.

Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

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

There is wisdom in the selection of wisdom....

Freedom from the desire for an answer is essential to the understanding of a problem.

Wit is the only wall between us and the dark.

Familiarity breeds contempt.

Fear is the foundation of most governments.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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.

Out of compassion I destroy the darkness of their ignorance. From within them I light the lamp of wisdom and dispel all darkness from their lives.

It is only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a supreme being, that our calamities can be borne in the manner which becomes a man.

Your joy is your sorrow unmasked. And the self-same well from which your laughter rises was often-times filled with your tears.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.

I used to trouble about what life was for. Now being alive seems sufficent reason."

Friendship is not possible between two women one of whom is very well dressed.

Play fair. Don't hit people. Say you're sorry when you hurt somebody.

It wasn't raining when Noah built the ark.

Every generation needs a new revolution.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

I wanted to write the most beautiful poem but that is impossible; the world has written its own.

It is better to play than do nothing.

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

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything

We want to create a sort of linguistic Lourdes, where evil and misfortune are dispelled by a dip in the waters of euphemism

Some are weatherwise, some are otherwise.

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

In order to improve the mind, we ought less to learn, than to contemplate.

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer

You have to have the darkness for the dawn to come.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

At the end of knowledge, wisdom begins, and at the end of wisdom, there is not grief...but hope

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

How alive is thought, invisible, yet without thought there is no sight.

When following God, Zero we never find.

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.

After crosses and losses men grow humbler and wiser.

To care for anyone else enough to make their problems one's own, is ever the beginning of one's real ethical development.

Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

People who take the time to be alone usually have depth, originality, and quiet reserve.

I find as I grow older that I love those most whom I loved first.

The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

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.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

The bravest thing you can do when you are not brave is to profess courage and act accordingly.

Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.

I have tried lately to read Shakespeare, and found it so intolerably dull that it nauseated me.

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.

The poor wish for wealth; animals for the faculty of speech; men wish for heaven; and godly persons for liberation.

The road of life twists and turns and no two directions are ever the same. Yet our lessons come from the journey, not the destination.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.

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

Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Music fathoms the sky.

One of the grotesqueries of present-day American life is the amount of reasoning that goes into displaying the wisdom secreted in bad movies while proving that modern art is meaningless. They have put into practice the notion that a bad art work cleverly interpreted according to some obscure Method is more rewarding than a masterpiece wrapped in silence.

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

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

Young men want to be faithful, and are not. Old men want to be faithless, and cannot.

The sense impressions of one-celled animals are not edited for the brain. This is philosophically interesting in a rather mournful way, since it means that only the simplest animals perceive the universe as it is.

The wise man questions the wisdom of others because he questions his own, the foolish man, because it is different from his own.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

There are very few personal problems that cannot be solved through a suitable application of high explosives.

People think that because a novel's invented, it isn't true. Exactly the reverse is the case. Biography and memoirs can never be wholly true, since they cannot include every conceivable circumstance of what happened. The novel can do that.

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.

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in, forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day, you shall begin it well and serenely...

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practised, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good. . . . God, Nature, the wise, the world, preach man, exhort him both by word and deed to the study of himself.

I owe my solitude to other people.

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

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen

The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others lives unblest!

Hindu religion does not consist in struggles and attempts to believe a certain doctrine or dogma, but in realizing not in believing, but in being and becoming.

If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow.

Life is given for wisdom, and yet we are not wise; for goodness, and we are not good; for overcoming evil, and evil remains; for patience and sympathy and love, and yet we are fretful and hard and weak and selfish. We are keyed not to attainment, but to the struggle toward it.

Every man should have a college education in order to show him how little the thing is really worth.

To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do is style.

Dubito ergo cogito; cogito ergo sum. (I doubt, therefore I think; I think therefore I am

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom

Arrogance diminishes wisdom

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom

Wisdom oft lurks beneath a tattered coat.

Demons do not exist any more than gods do, being only the products of the psychic activity of man.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The wisest of the wise may err.

The wisest have the most authority.

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of conversation.

For this is Wisdom; to love, to liveTo take what fate, or the Gods may give.To ask no question, to make no prayer,To kiss the lips and caress the hair,Speed passion's ebb as you greet its flowTo have, -to hold -and -in time, -let go!

A star needs a star.

The significance of a man is not in what he attains, but rather what he longs to attain.

A wise man, recognizing that the world is but an illusion, does not act as if it is real, so he escapes the suffering.

Democracy... while it lasts is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide."

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

Learning acquired in youth arrests the evil of old age; and if you understand that old age has wisdom for its food, you will so conduct yourself in youth that your old age will not lack for nourishment.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

Truth is hard-hearted and unrelenting, too clear, precise; a lie is much more imaginative.

Absolute is a game with only one player where Absolute forgets itself so it would have a reason to fulfill the motion while returning.

Everybody talks, but there is no conversation.

Faith is a question of eyesight; even the blind can see that.

Incredulity is the wisdom of the fool.

After Homer and Dante, is a whole century of creating worth one Shakespeare?

He who is not impatient is not in love

A smiling lie is a whirlwind, easy to enter, but hard to escape.

Everything and nothing are the same in the Absolute.

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity.

In 100 years we have gone from teaching Latin and Greek in High School to teaching remedial English in college.

The same word we love and hate, leaves in different directions, taking different paths.

Universe is the Sun watching its own self.

The way to secure liberty is to place it in the people's hands, that is, to give them the power at all times to defend it in the legislature and in the courts of justice.

Knowledge, a rude unprofitable mass, the mere materials with which wisdom builds, till smoothed and squared and fitted to its place, does but encumber whom it seems to enrich. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Unborn eternity does not die; existence is dying and falls asleep in the eternity beyond existence.

For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.

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

Growth in wisdom can be measured precisely by decline in bile.

He who talks more is sooner exhausted.

Pride attaches undue importance to the superiority of one's status in the eyes of others; And shame is fear of humiliation at one's inferior status in the estimation of others. When one sets his heart on being highly esteemed, and achieves such rating, then he is automatically involved in fear of losing his status.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

Poverty makes you wise but it's a curse.

There is no wisdom equal to that which comes after the event.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

God is a cloud from which rain fell.

God is busy and has no time for you.

Omnipotence and omniscience are the end of power and knowledge.

Through words to the meaning of thoughts with no words.

When the long bygone Lee Po wanted to say something, he could do it with only a few words.

Eternity is a glorious word, but eternity is ice.

Beauty is a cheap word, but beauty remains priceless.

When I want to be reminded of stupidity, especially my own, I turn on the TV.

To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of eternal things; to knowledge, the rational knowledge of temporal things.

Two forces create eternity – a fairy tale and a dream from the fairy tale.

Get close to grass and you’ll see a star.

Arrival in the world is really a departure and that, which we call departure, is only a return.

He that is jealous is not in love.

To understand possible means to understand impossible.

The fool wanders, a wise man travels.

He who controls the present, controls the past. He who controls the past, controls the future.

The world is a navy in an empty ocean.

A wise man fights to win, but he is twice a fool who has no plan for possible defeat.

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom spun too fine.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

The fool wonders, the wise man asks.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom

Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character

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

The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be only the beginning.

The reality of the other person lies not in what he reveals to you, but what he cannot reveal to you. Therefore, if you would understand him, listen not to what he says, but rather to what he does not say.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.

Wisdom is the most important part of happiness.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight... the truly wise person is colorblind.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

Knowing what you can not do is more important than knowing what you can do. In fact, that's good taste.

A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contently.

He who does not see the whole world in his friends, does not deserve that the world should hear of him.

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.

When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve.

The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.

The more specific you are, the more general it'll be.

As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. He that follows this rule may be old in body, but can never be so in mind.

The fact that you are willing to say, 'I do not understand, and it is fine,' is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.

Let the spirit out - Discard all thoughts of reward, all hopes of praise and fears of blame, all awareness of one's bodily self. And, finally closing the avenues of sense perception, let the spirit out, as it will.

By swallowing evil words unsaid, no one has ever harmed his stomach.

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

On life's journey faith is nourishment, virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life, nothing can destroy him.

We think our fathers fools, so wise we grow. Our wiser sons, no doubt will think us so.

He who thinks himself wise, O heavens! is a great fool.

For the subtlest folly proceeds from the subtlest wisdom.

The greatest wisdom often consist in ignorance.

It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery — the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets — is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

When the eagles are silent, the parrots begin to jabber.

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

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

I go on the principle that a public debt is a public curse and in a republican government more than in any other.

The road to wisdom? Well, it's plain and simple to express: Errand err again but less and less and less.

Society knows perfectly well how to kill a man and has methods more subtle than death

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

Money is the wise man's religion.

You cannot have the right to do what is wrong!

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

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

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

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with ignorance...

Life is only a flicker of melted ice.

Darkness does not age; nothing is always nothing

Creators of history always play with our impotence and our ignorance.

In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom.

Based on the law of probability Everything is possible because The sheer existence of possibility Confirms the existence Of impossibility.

Existence is the end of endless eternity without a beginning or an end.

Experience comprises illusions lost, rather than wisdom gained.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

As nothing is more easy than to think, so nothing is more difficult than to think well.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom; to practice with vigor is near to benevolence; and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude. He who knows these three things

The visible mark of extraordinary wisdom and power appear so plainly in all the works of creation.

Delay is hateful, but it gives wisdom

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.