I only wish that wisdom were the kind of thing that flowed... from the vessel that was full to the one that was empty.
SocratesThe only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
SocratesNo man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
Abraham LincolnIf you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.
Herman HesseThe saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac AsimovIf you judge investigate.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaLife seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
Jane AustenWhat you're supposed to do when you don't like a thing is change it. If you can't change it, change the way you think about it. Don't complain.
Maya AngelouIt is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.
Mark TwainNothing will come of nothing.
William ShakespeareThe beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven, if you still know everything, you're still seventeen.
Ray BradburyAll generalizations are false including this one.
Mark Twain...for the lesser evil is reckoned a good, in comparison with the greater evil, since the lesser evil is rather to be chosen, than the greater...
AristotleNever let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
Isaac AsimovTurn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah WinfreyAn investment in knowledge pays the best interest.
Benjamin FranklinWe do not really feel grateful toward those who make our dreams come true, they ruin our dreams.
Eric HofferNever tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.
Mark TwainWisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.
Jane AustenSeek patience and passion in equal amounts. Patience alone will not build the temple. Passion alone will destroy its walls.
Maya AngelouA man who views the world the same at 50 as he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life.
Muhammad AliDon’t gain the world and lose your soul. Wisdom is better than silver and gold.
Bob MarleyTruth never damages a cause that is just.
Mahatma GandhiAnyone can become angry - that is easy; but to be angry with the right person, at the right time, and for the right purpose and in the right way - that is not within everyone's power and that is not easy.
AristotleMuddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.
Alan WattsBrevity is the soul of wit.
William ShakespeareMotivation is the art of getting people to do what you want them to do because they want to do it.
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou ain't gonna miss your water until your well runs dry.
Bob MarleyI read less and less. I have not forgiven books for their failure to tell me the truth and make me happy.
Mason CooleyIntelligence without ambition is a bird without wings.
Salvador DaliFacts are many but the truth is one.
Rabindranath TagoreHate, it has caused a lot of problems in the world, but has not solved one yet.
Maya AngelouDesire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly.
ConfuciusSome rise by sin and some by virtue fall.
William ShakespeareAnybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
Oscar WildeDo not impose on others what you yourself do not desire.
ConfuciusProblems that remain persistently insoluble should always be suspected as questions asked in the wrong way.
Alan WattsI am not young enough to know everything.
Oscar WildeExperience is simply the name we give our mistakes.
Oscar WildeImitation is the sincerest flattery.
Mahatma GandhiWisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else ... Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it.
Herman HesseThose who say religion has nothing to do with politics do not know what religion is.
Mahatma GandhiBeware the hobby that eats.
Benjamin FranklinAt twenty years of age the will reigns, at thirty the wit, and at forty the judgment.
Benjamin FranklinMeditation 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.
BuddhaFor thought is a bird of space, that in a cage of words may indeed unfold its wings but cannot fly.
Kahlil GibranWe are, therefore, out of touch with reality. We confuse the world as talked about, described, and measured with the world which actually is.
Alan WattsI think therefore I am. I think.
George CarlinHe that can have patience can have what he will.
Benjamin FranklinIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinImagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar WildeDon't limit a child to your own learning for he was born in another time.
Rabindranath TagoreNever make someone a priority when all you are to them is an option.
Maya AngelouAll experiences are preceded by mind, having mind as their master, created by mind.
BuddhaFor what is evil but good tortured by its own hunger and thirst?
Kahlil GibranDiscipline divorced from wisdom is not true discipline, but merely the meaningless following of custom, which is only a disguise for stupidity.
Rabindranath TagoreIn matters of conscience the law of the majority has no place.
Mahatma GandhiThe real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.
Marcel ProustWords may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
Benjamin FranklinPatience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint AugustineBetter three hours too soon than a minute too late.
William ShakespeareWisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil GibranMorality is contraband in war.
Mahatma GandhiHe who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep, pain that cannot forget, falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
AeschylusJust 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.
BuddhaMore gold has been mined from the thoughts of men than has been taken from the earth.
Napoleon HillAnger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.
Benjamin FranklinWhen anger rises think of the consequences.
ConfuciusPhilosophy will clip an angel's wings.
John KeatsI always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
Oscar WildeNever use a cannon to kill a fly.
ConfuciusThe world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.
Bertrand RussellWhen 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.
Abraham LincolnPoverty is the worst form of violence.
Mahatma GandhiTeach you children poetry, it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter ScottMore 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.
Woody AllenSeek not every quality in one individual.
ConfuciusThere's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth.
Maya AngelouThe very ink with which history is written is merely fluid prejudice.
Mark TwainBeware of false knowledge, it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawBut 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.
Edmund BurkeCriticism is something we can avoid easily by saying nothing doing nothing and being nothing.
AristotleConceit causes more conversation than wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldQuestions are never indiscreet, answers sometimes are.
Oscar WildeHow quick come the reasons for approving what we like!
Jane AustenI care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
Abraham LincolnThere's no present. There's only the immediate future and the recent past.
George CarlinWe are sometimes as different from ourselves as we are from others.
Francois de La RochefoucauldGive thy thoughts no tongue.
William ShakespeareReason is the natural order of truth, but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C. S. LewisThe greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes.
HoraceWords are the voice of the heart
ConfuciusA thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.
Oscar WildeWhat is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William BlakeLook deep into nature and then you will understand everything better.
Albert EinsteinOne can survive everything nowadays, except death, and live down everything, except a good reputation.
Oscar WildeI've learned that you shouldn't go through life with a catcher's mitt on both hands, you need to be able to throw something back.
Maya AngelouFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldNobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.
Jane AustenIt has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.
Abraham LincolnThe more things are forbidden the more popular they become.
Mark TwainDoes wisdom, perhaps, appear on the earth as a raven, which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich NietzscheThe man of upright life is obeyed before he speaks.
ConfuciusThere is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
Mahatma GandhiNo problem can be solved from the same level of consciousness that created it.
Albert EinsteinFor those whose wit becomes the mother of villainy, those it educates to be evil in all things.
SophoclesCommon sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
Albert EinsteinViolent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.
Mahatma GandhiA peace is of the nature of a conquest, for then both parties nobly are subdued and neither party loser.
William ShakespeareHear reason, or she'll make you feel her.
Benjamin FranklinThey must change who would be constant in happiness and wisdom.
ConfuciusThe books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar WildeNecessity never made a good bargain.
Benjamin FranklinHonest disagreement is often a good sign of progress.
Mahatma GandhiWhen we see men of a contrary character we should turn inwards and examine ourselves.
ConfuciusIt is well to be up before daybreak for such habits contribute to health, wealth and wisdom.
AristotleA man who does not plan long ahead will find trouble right at his door.
ConfuciusGood has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely, and that which is good for somebody.
AristotleThe attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert EinsteinI heard the old old men say 'all that's beautiful drifts away like the waters.'
William Butler YeatsConvictions are more dangerous foes of truth than lies.
Friedrich NietzscheIf you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone.
Benjamin FranklinHonesty is the best policy.
Benjamin FranklinPreachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do somebody always imputes meaning into your books.
Dr. SeussListen to many, speak to a few.
William ShakespeareAll our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil GibranUneasy lies the head that wears a crown.
William ShakespeareDemocracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H. L. MenckenFirst have a definite clear practical ideal, a goal an objective. Second have the necessary means to achieve your ends, wisdom, money, materials and methods. Third adjust all your means to that end.
AristotleIt's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
Leonardo da VinciWe cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain.
Alan WattsThe older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. MenckenIf a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it from him.
Benjamin FranklinWit is the salt of conversation, not the food.
William HazlittWhen we turn to one another for counsel, we reduce the number of our enemies.
Kahlil GibranIt is only when the rich are sick that they fully feel the impotence of wealth.
Benjamin FranklinThe doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin FranklinHe who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.
AristotleThe best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
Thomas A. EdisonI am not bound to win but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed but I am bound to live by the light that I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right and stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.
Abraham LincolnMany a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.
Kahlil GibranThe man of wisdom has no perplexity, the man of humanity has no worry, the man of courage has no fear.
ConfuciusThe doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinNo light is brighter than wisdom - wisdom is the light in the world.
BuddhaI don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Abraham LincolnThe 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.
Kahlil GibranMartyrdom covers a multitude of sins.
Mark TwainTo know that you know and to know that you don't know - that is the real wisdom.
ConfuciusAdmiration is the daughter of ignorance.
Benjamin FranklinVirtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on water and fire but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue.
ConfuciusWhen angry - count to four; when very angry - swear.
Mark TwainThere 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.
ConfuciusOne today is worth two tomorrows.
Benjamin FranklinThose that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinListen carefully to what country people call mother wit. In those homely sayings are couched the collective wisdom of generations.
Maya AngelouRemember 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.
Benjamin FranklinDoubt is a pain too lonely to know that faith is his twin brother.
Kahlil GibranThere are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants and the other is getting it.
Oscar WildeTact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
Abraham LincolnThe proper man understands equity, the small man profits.
ConfuciusPrejudice is a burden that confuses the past, threatens the future and renders the present inaccessible.
Maya AngelouTruth stands even if there be no public support. It is self-sustained.
Mahatma GandhiBuy land, they're not making it anymore.
Mark TwainTake time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin FranklinThe pride of the peacock is the glory of God. The lust of the goat is the bounty of God. The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God. The nakedness of woman is the work of God.
William BlakeWhen words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.
William ShakespeareKeep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.
Kahlil GibranBy 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.
ConfuciusConfidence contributes more to conversation than wit.
Francois de La RochefoucauldPeace cannot be kept by force, it can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert EinsteinIt takes huge effort to free yourself from memory.
Paulo CoelhoGray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs as in the young.
Rabindranath TagoreYour true character is most accurately measured by how you treat those who can do 'nothing' for you.
Mother TeresaWisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
HoraceAs long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Mahatma GandhiTo lose patience is to lose the battle.
Mahatma GandhiThe foot feels the foot when it feels the ground.
BuddhaWhen prosperity comes do not use all of it.
ConfuciusThere's many a man has more hair than wit.
William ShakespeareThere are people who can do all fine and heroic things, but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.
Mark TwainMadness, in a higher sense, is the beginning of all wisdom.
Herman HesseThe man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure.
Herman HesseHe had loved and had found himself. But most people love to lose themselves.
Herman HesseOpinions mean nothing; they may be beautiful or ugly, clever or foolish, anyone can embrace or reject them.
Herman HesseYouth ends when egotism does; maturity begins when one lives for others.
Herman HesseWhatever is not yours: let go of it. Your letting go of it will be for your long-term happiness and benefit.
BuddhaMemory is the mother of all wisdom.
AeschylusMost people who ask for advice from others have already resolved to act as it pleases them.
Kahlil GibranHe that won't be counseled can't be helped.
Benjamin FranklinWhenever you find yourself on the side of the majority it is time to pause and reflect.
Mark TwainThe essence of all religions is one. Only their approaches are different.
Mahatma GandhiKnowledge of what is does not open the door directly to what should be.
Albert EinsteinI am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.
Napoleon BonaparteTo 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.
BuddhaNothing so needs reforming as other people's habits.
Mark TwainWit is a dangerous weapon even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.
Michel de MontaigneNothing ever exists entirely alone, everything is in relation to everything else.
BuddhaA hero is born among a hundred; a wise man is found among a thousand; but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
PlatoMen always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself, the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle, or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. ChestertonWisdom, compassion and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusLet us make a special effort to stop communicating with each other, so we can have some conversation.
Mark TwainHe who studies books alone will know how things ought to be and he who studies men will know how they are.
Charles Caleb ColtonMan is the only animal that blushes - or needs to.
Mark TwainObserve the life by cause and consequence. Explore the life by wisdom. Treat the life by equality. Complete the life by love.
BuddhaThough we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma GandhiAnyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.
Albert EinsteinIt 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 GandhiI do not trust people who don't love themselves and yet tell me 'I love you'. There is an African saying which is: 'Be careful when a naked person offers you a shirt'.
Maya AngelouPeople do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.
Helen KellerIllusion is the first of all pleasures.
Oscar WildeWe should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.
Albert EinsteinThe thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks more deeply and draws more blood.
Maya AngelouPretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.
Sun TzuHe who praises everybody praises nobody.
Samuel JohnsonThe direction of the mind is more important than its progress.
Joseph JoubertThose 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 FranklinDo not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.
Sai BabaAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauThere is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich NietzscheFollow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah WinfreyAll that we do is done with an eye to something else.
AristotleWisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles SpurgeonA religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.
Mahatma GandhiMorality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.
Mahatma GandhiHow poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
William ShakespeareIt is wisdom in prosperity when all is as thou wouldn't have it to fear and suspect the worst.
Desiderius ErasmusDoubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Charles Caleb ColtonWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenWisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLearning sleeps and snores in libraries but wisdom is everywhere wide awake on tiptoe.
Josh BillingsIf I am fool it is at least a doubting one, and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
Lord ByronAll the crap that they tell you about ... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years -- it's all tripe ... I've gained no wisdom no insight no mellowing. I would make all the same mistakes again today.
Woody AllenTo keep the body in good health is a duty, for otherwise we shall not be able to trim the lamp of wisdom and keep our mind strong and clear. Water surrounds the lotus flower, but does not wet its petals.
BuddhaThough sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure
Lord ByronLet us live and move in harmony. Let us grow together. Let us cherish the wisdom that we have acquired together. Let us live in complete harmony without any misunderstanding.
Sai BabaI learned some valuable lessons about the legislative process the importance of bipartisan cooperation and the wisdom of taking small steps to get a big job done.
Hillary ClintonI am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.
John BarrymoreA house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham LincolnFear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand RussellAnd I love that even in the toughest moments when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom and courage and grace.
Michelle ObamaThe road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.
William BlakeThe release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Albert EinsteinThe wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
Mason CooleyRebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.
Kahlil GibranOur own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry MillerI will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.
John KeatsThe wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.
Andrew JacksonWisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever, no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself, no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaThe 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. EisenhowerWithout courage wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar GracianThe road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.
Albert EinsteinStrive not to be a success but rather to be of value.
Albert EinsteinWe must expect reverses even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence to call forth greater energies and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. LeeIt is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David ThoreauI do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas CarlyleWe don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel ProustHonesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas JeffersonHe who requires much from himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of resentment.
ConfuciusA man who does not think for himself does not think at all.
Oscar WildeBack of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you listen.
Carl SandburgThe basis of optimism is sheer terror.
Oscar WildeClearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing patience and wisdom.
Alice WalkerThe hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.
William BlakeAll the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe
Woody AllenWho is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin FranklinBooks are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living we may repair to the dead who have nothing of peevishness pride or design in their conversation.
William Butler YeatsWisdom has never made a bigot but learning has.
Josh BillingsTo make no mistakes is not in the power of man, but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
PlutarchIt is the wisdom of the crocodiles that shed tears when they would devour.
Francis BaconWisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles