1. A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen
2. He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. - Edgar Fiedler
3. To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. - Akhenaton
4. This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say. - Brenda Ueland
5. 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. - J. Michael Straczynski
6. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. - Walter Benjamin
7. Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. - Alfred Austin
8. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. - Richard Whately
9. Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting. - Elizabeth Bibesco
10. You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself. - Teri Garr
11. Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. - Arthur Helps
12. When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. - Sara Teasdale
13. The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. - Jane Wyman
14. Everything important always begins from something trivial. - Donald Hall
15. It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. - Ella Maillart
16. If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. - Lord Salisbury
17. Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. - Sidney Lanier
18. If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. - Sidney Lanier
19. You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. - Clarence Day
20. Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience. - Evelyn Underhill
. Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing. - Alexander Woollcott
22. Slow and steady wins the race. - Robert Lloyd
23. What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. - Shinichi Suzuki
24. The less you talk, the more you're listened to. - Pauline Phillips
25. Giving opens the way for receiving. - Florence Scovel Shinn
26. Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. - Abraham Cahan
27. People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way. - A. C. Benson
28. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Huneker
29. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. - David Starr Jordan
30. All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward. - Johann Georg Hamann
31. Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two. - John Cheever
32. Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. - William Temple
33. Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. - Tobias Smollett
34. Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. - Owen Feltham
35. There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest. - Confucius
36. Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech. - Benjamin Franklin
37. To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha
38. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant
39. You can only learn so much from books. You can only learn so much from education. Ultimately, it is the wisdom of God that will carry you through in the toughest situations of life. - Ravi Zacharias
40. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy. - Friedrich Nietzsche
41. I am not the first Buddha who came upon Earth, nor shall I be the last. In due time, another Buddha will arise in the world - a Holy One, a supremely enlightened One, endowed with wisdom in conduct, auspicious, knowing the universe, an incomparable leader of men, a master of angels and mortals. - Buddha
42. Don't gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. - Bob Marley
43. God has already done everything He's going to do. The ball is now in your court. If you want success, if you want wisdom, if you want to be prosperous and healthy, you're going to have to do more than meditate and believe; you must boldly declare words of faith and victory over yourself and your family. - Joel Osteen
44. We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal. - Thich Nhat Hanh
45. Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her. - Maria Montessori
46. A thought transfixed me: for the first time in my life, I saw the truth as it is set into song by so many poets, proclaimed as the final wisdom by so many thinkers. The truth - that love is the ultimate and the highest goal to which man can aspire. - Viktor E. Frankl
47. More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. - George Eliot
48. The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans. - Robert Kennedy
49. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes
50. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
51. My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom. - William Tecumseh Sherman
52. In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. - Ansel Adams
53. I don't have the strength or wisdom to get through a single day without guidance and grace from God. - Tony Dungy
54. Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next. - Herbert Hoover
55. Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides
56. Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life. - Ezra Taft Benson
57. Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning. - King Solomon
58. Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do. - Charles Stanley
59. I believe the continually advancing Information Revolution will lend us the wisdom and strength to address humanity's previously unsolvable problems and help us make a positive impact on all of society. - Masayoshi Son
60. 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. - James Buchanan
61. The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom. - Samuel Smiles
62. They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. - Confucius
63. Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau
64. Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion. - Benjamin Franklin
65. The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein
66. The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
67. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
68. Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
69. Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well. - Ralph Waldo Emerson
70. I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you. - Maya Angelou
71. Science investigates; religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power; religion gives man wisdom which is control. - Martin Luther King, Jr.
72. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. - Aristotle
73. Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. - Aristotle
74. Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.' - Zig Ziglar
75. It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. - Mahatma Gandhi
76. Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom. - Plato
77. Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom. - Plato
78. There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain. - Plato
79. Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences. - Plato
80. The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom. - Plato
81. Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom. - Buddha
82. It is time to remember that old wisdom our soldiers will never forget: that whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American Flag. - Donald Trump
83. I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose. - John F. Kennedy
84. No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will. - Barack Obama
85. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson
86. I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson
87. So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done. - Thomas Jefferson
88. Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival. - Thomas Jefferson
89. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean. - Socrates
90. Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me. - Nelson Mandela
91. Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain. - Khalil Gibran
92. Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself. - Oprah Winfrey
93. I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. - Oprah Winfrey
94. Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H. L. Mencken
95. Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience. - H. L. Mencken
96. Good men by nature, wish to know. I know that many will call this useless work... men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of that of wisdom, which is the food and only true riches of the mind. - Leonardo da Vinci
97. The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion. - Robert Frost
98. Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T. S. Eliot
99. Grief can be the garden of compassion. If you keep your heart open through everything, your pain can become your greatest ally in your life's search for love and wisdom. - Rumi
100. The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion. - Dwight D. Eisenhower
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