1. Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance. - Jean de La Fontaine
2. When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way. - Morihei Ueshiba
3. 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
4. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. - Josh Billings
5. The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. - Josh Billings
6. Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson
7. Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. - Phil Jackson
8. The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. - John Burroughs
9. The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are. - John Burroughs
10. Make it your habit not to be critical about small things. - Edward Everett Hale
11. 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
12. Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is God's gift, that's why we call it the present. - Joan Rivers
13. You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. - Ethel Barrymore
14. From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. - Publilius Syrus
15. If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest. - Publilius Syrus
16. Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian
17. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. - Hermann Hesse
18. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one. - Honore de Balzac
19. Talent is God-given; be humble. Fame is man-given; be thankful. Conceit is self-given; be careful. - Harvey Mackay
20. Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. - William Penn
21. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use. - Thomas J. Watson
22. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
23. A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants. - Joseph Addison
24. Look around for a place to sow a few seeds. - Henry Van Dyke
25. Use what talents you possess; the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. - Henry Van Dyke
26. Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little. - Edna Ferber
27. Never cut what you can untie. - Joseph Joubert
28. Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else. - Judy Garland
29. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. - Thomas Babington Macaulay
30. But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion. - Sylvia Plath
31. It's not the having, it's the getting. - Elizabeth Taylor
32. 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
33. If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. - Mason Cooley
34. The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. - William Gibson
35. Wisdom begins at the end. - Daniel Webster
36. I praise loudly. I blame softly. - Catherine the Great
37. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it. - James M. Barrie
38. It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance. - Thomas Huxley
39. Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. - Sydney J. Harris
40. Look twice before you leap. - Charlotte Bronte
41. A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow. - Charlotte Bronte
42. The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly. - Stendhal
43. The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. - Jean Paul
44. Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. - Jean Paul
45. It is while you are patiently toiling at the little tasks of life that the meaning and shape of the great whole of life dawn on you. - Phillips Brooks
46. You always have two choices: your commitment versus your fear. - Sammy Davis, Jr.
47. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. - Doug Larson
48. Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. - Doug Larson
49. Suffering is one of life's great teachers. - Bryant H. McGill
50. 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. - Joseph Smith, Jr.
51. If you want to go east, don't go west. - Ramakrishna
52. Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
53. If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself. - Rollo May
54. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more. - William Cowper
55. My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate. - Thornton Wilder
56. Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day. - Thornton Wilder
57. Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. - Dan Rather
58. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. - Walter Lippmann
59. Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground. - David Icke
60. A mistake is simply another way of doing things. - Katharine Graham
61. Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm. - Pope Paul VI
62. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. - Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
63. It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. - Logan Pearsall Smith
64. A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work. - John Lubbock
65. Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal
66. We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are. - Max de Pree
67. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson
68. All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people. - Alexis Carrel
69. Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can. - George Allen, Sr.
70. A mouse does not rely on just one hole. - Plautus
71. Let deeds match words. - Plautus
72. When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield. - Quintilian
73. The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin
74. Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. - Alan Kay
75. The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay
76. The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others. - Don Shula
77. My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better. - Marlo Thomas
78. The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. - Wilson Mizner
79. Between saying and doing, many a pair of shoes is worn out. - Iris Murdoch
80. It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. - William Inge
81. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. - William Inge
82. The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. - Torquato Tasso
83. A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love. - Saint Basil
84. If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond. - Ausonius
85. It is better to rust out than wear out. - Edwin Markham
86. The sweetest of all sounds is praise. - Xenophon
87. Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. - Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
88. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens. - Ellen Glasgow
89. When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective. - George C. Marshall
90. Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. - Tom Hopkins
91. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
92. The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone. - Lucretius
93. Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views. - Nikolai Gogol
94. Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us. - Guy Finley
95. As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. - Ben Hogan
96. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself. - Isaac Bashevis Singer
97. A promise made is a debt unpaid. - Robert W. Service
98. It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. - Harold S. Geneen
99. To win without risk is to triumph without glory. - Pierre Corneille
100. Wisdom sails with wind and time. - John Florio
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