Friday, September 14, 2012

Wisdom Quotes

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. 
Confucius 


A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. 
Nelson Mandela 


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 


If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it. 
Michael Jordan 


The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. 
Socrates

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. 
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton 


Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you. 
Aldous Huxley 


Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 


Winners never quit and quitters never win. 
Vince Lombardi 


If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. 
Nelson Mandela 


A mistake is simply another way of doing things. 
Katharine Graham 


Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. 
Phil Jackson 


I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. 
Lucille Ball 


The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. 
Khalil Gibran 


Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. 
Jim Rohn 


As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. 
Ben Hogan 


Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. 
John Muir 


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


It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. 
Henry David Thoreau


Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. 
Thomas Jefferson 


A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle. 
Khalil Gibran 


Be happy. It's one way of being wise. 
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette 


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


Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. 
Archimedes 


A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. 
Robert Frost

Honesty is the best policy. 
Benjamin Franklin 


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


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


Cleverness is not wisdom. 
Euripides 


All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. 
Henry David Thoreau 


Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. 
Albert Einstein 


When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity. 
John F. Kennedy 


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


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


A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. 
Plato 


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


The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends. 
Friedrich Nietzsche 


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 


The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails. 
William Arthur Ward


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


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


The less you talk, the more you're listened to. 
Abigail Van Buren 


True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. 
Socrates 


Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. 
Henry Ward Beecher 


Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. 
Marcus Tullius Cicero

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


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


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


Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 


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


In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. 
John Muir 


Wisdom begins in wonder. 
Socrates 


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


Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. 
Baltasar Gracian 


Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment. 
Lao Tzu 


Turn your wounds into wisdom. 
Oprah Winfrey 


The best way to predict the future is to invent it. 
Alan Kay 


A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. 
Francis Bacon 


Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. 
Arthur Helps


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



Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. 
Dan Rather 



Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. 
Ralph Waldo Emerson 



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


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. 
Benjamin Franklin 


There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. 
Benjamin Franklin

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


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 


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


Wisdom is found only in truth. 
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 


It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone. 
Francois de La Rochefoucauld 


It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it. 
John Steinbeck 


The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. 
Jean Paul 


The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds. 
John F. Kennedy 


Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. 
Aesop 


The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. 
William Blake 


It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left? 
Jim Carrey 


The doors of wisdom are never shut. 
Benjamin Franklin 


Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. 
Theodore Roosevelt 


Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. 
George S. Patton



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



No man was ever wise by chance. 
Lucius Annaeus Seneca 



To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. 
Bertrand Russell 



If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements. 
Mason Cooley 


Patience is the companion of wisdom. 
Saint Augustine 


The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. 
H. L. Mencken

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


Man is only great when he acts from passion. 
Benjamin Disraeli 


Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. 
Alfred Lord Tennyson 


Sorrow is knowledge, those that know the most must mourn the deepest, the tree of knowledge is not the tree of life. 
Lord Byron 


In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. 
Lord Chesterfield 


It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. 
Epictetus 


He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. 
Edgar R. Fiedler 


He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. 
James Huneker 


It is impossible to love and to be wise. 
Francis Bacon 


Memory is the mother of all wisdom. 
Aeschylus 


Wisdom is a sacred communion. 
Victor Hugo 


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 


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


It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously. 
Logan P. Smith



Wisdom is learning what to overlook. 
William James 



Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you. 
Joey Adams 



Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. 
Vince Lombardi 



The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. 
Oliver Wendell Holmes 


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 


A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune. 
Horace

If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance. 
Leo Buscaglia 


Who is wise in love, love most, say least. 
Alfred Lord Tennyson 


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


Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. 
Tom Hopkins 


Wisdom outweighs any wealth. 
Sophocles 


Knowledge is of no value unless you put it into practice. 
Anton Chekhov 


The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it. 
Ayn Rand 


Of prosperity mortals can never have enough. 
Aeschylus 


Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. 
Sophocles 


The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. 
Daniel J. Boorstin 


The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. 
Napoleon Bonaparte 


Wise men make more opportunities than they find. 
Francis Bacon 


If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. 
Sidney Lanier 


I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow. 
Ron White



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



The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. 
Josh Billings 



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



We can't command our love, but we can our actions. 
Arthur Conan Doyle 


Tis but a part we see, and not a whole. 
Alexander Pope 


Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. 
David Herbert Lawrence

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head. 
Arthur Schopenhauer 


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


Start wide, expand further, and never look back. 
Arnold Schwarzenegger 


He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. 
Mary Wilson Little 


It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. 
Harold S. Geneen 


You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements. 
Denis Waitley 


Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. 
Walter Benjamin 


People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy. 
Anton Chekhov 


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 


You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. 
Clarence Day 


Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. 
Tobias Smollett 


It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. 
Arthur Conan Doyle 


Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself. 
W. Clement Stone 


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



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



Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation. 
Robert H. Schuller 



Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence. 
Jean Paul 



Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. 
Diogenes 


Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. 
William Penn 


What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. 
Shinichi Suzuki

Wisdom begins at the end. 
Daniel Webster 


Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. 
Thomas B. Macaulay 


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


It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. 
William Ralph Inge 


The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. 
Dean Inge 


The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. 
William Gibson 


Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. 
Phil Jackson 


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


If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe. 
Lord Salisbury 


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


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


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. 
Juvenal 


Perspective is worth 80 IQ points. 
Alan Kay 


Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. 
Sidney Lanier

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