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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.
William Feather
...when you finally fly away, I'll be hoping that I served you well,
for all the wisdom of a lifetime no one can ever tell"
Forever Young
Wisdom does not come overnight.
African Proverb
The highest form of wisdom is kindness.
The Talmud
Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A child's hand in yours — what tenderness it arouses, what power it conjures. You are instantly the very touchstone of power and wisdom.
Marjorie Holmes
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
All men make mistakes,
but only wise men learn from their mistakes.
Sir Winston Churchill
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life.
Sandra Carey
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
Leonardo da Vinci
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton
The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth.
Pierre Abelard
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom.
Elbert Hubbard
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
Ron Wild
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world.
Sidney Lovett
The wisest man is he who does not believe he is wise.
Proverb
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.
Serenity Prayer
We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes. We always think of failure as the antithesis of success, but it isn't. Success often lies just the other side of failure.
Leo F. Buscaglia
Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant.
Stephen Sigmund
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
George Christoph Lichtenberg
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
William Saroyan
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
M. K. Soni
It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
Robert Green Ingersoll
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Rubin
Often our eyes see "those who are".....But who are we? A simple reflection of those who are?
I am reminded to look within my own soul for answers. For we are all given a spirit of wisdom.
Today may I not only see those who are, but may I also see who I am.
Colleen Smith
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime.
Proverb
The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
Vernon Cooper
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
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.
Gandhi
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.
Rachel Carson
Six essential qualities that are the key to success: Sincerity, personal integrity, humility, courtesy, wisdom, charity.
William Menninger
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
Albert Einstein
The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.
Mark Twain
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living that are desired when dying.
Author Unknown
The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.
Isaac D'Israeli
I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.
Woodrow Wilson
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.
John A. Morrison
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Charles Caleb Colton
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.
Samuel Smiles
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Coleridge
Understanding is knowing what to do;
wisdom is knowing what to do next;
virtue is actually doing it.
Tristan Gylberd
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.
Samuel Smiles
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.
Richard E. Byrd
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tryon Edwards
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.
Tao Te Ching |
