People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are not always pleasant.

The human race is a race of cowards, and I am not only marching in that procession, but carrying a banner.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

We should take care not to make the intellect our god, it has of course powerful muscles but no personality.

The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned, pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

We shape our dwellings and afterwards our dwellings shape us.

Pretend inferiority and encourage his arrogance.

He who praises everybody praises nobody.

Politics have no relation to morals.

The direction of the mind is more important than its progress.

Where does discontent start? You are warm enough but you shiver. You are fed yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time the Bastard Time.

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.

Do not differentiate on the basis of race, caste, creed or country.

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

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

All that we do is done with an eye to something else.

Wisdom 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.

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

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.

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

It is wisdom in prosperity when all is as thou wouldn't have it to fear and suspect the worst.

They would need to be already wise in order to love wisdom.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

Wisdom has its root in goodness not goodness its root in wisdom.

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

If I am fool it is at least a doubting one, and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

All 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.

To 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.

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure There is no sterner moralist than Pleasure

Let 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.

I 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.

I am thinking of taking a fifth wife. Why not? Solomon had a thousand wives and he is a synonym for wisdom.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

Fear is the main source of superstition and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

And 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.

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.

Rebellion without truth is like spring in a bleak arid desert.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

I 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.

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Wisdom 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.

There will be no end to the troubles of states, or of humanity itself, till philosophers become kings in this world, or till those we now call kings and rulers really and truly become philosophers and political power, and philosophy thus come into the same hands.

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.

Without courage wisdom bears no fruit.

The road to perdition has ever been accompanied by lip service to an ideal.

Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.

Strive not to be a success but rather to be of value.

We 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.

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

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

We don't receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past but beauty is the promise of the future.

Great wisdom is generous, petty wisdom is contentious.

He who requires much from himself and little from others will keep himself from being the object of resentment.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.

A man who does not think for himself does not think at all.

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom if you listen.

The basis of optimism is sheer terror.

Clearly 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.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock but of wisdom no clock can measure.

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.

Books 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.

Wisdom has never made a bigot but learning has.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

To 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.

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.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles that shed tears when they would devour.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

To keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

There are three classes of men, lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.

It was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

There is a wisdom of the head and a wisdom of the heart.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to discourage them from ambitious attempts and generally console them in their mediocrity.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end, it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.

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.

The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Come come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom, we have to say Like People like Government.

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.

I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

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.

However glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

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

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool, the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.

Open the gates of wisdom tear the veil of ignorance enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

The advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.

I think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly, we either overstate it or understate it.

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.

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

Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

In life all good things come hard but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.

On life's journey faith is nourishment virtuous deeds are a shelter, wisdom is the light by day and right mindfulness is the protection by night. If a man lives a pure life nothing can destroy him.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.

God give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

At sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

Innocence dwells with wisdom but never with ignorance

This is the highest wisdom that I own, freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

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.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.

Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Practice is as important for confirming one in wisdom as reading is important for confirming one in knowledge.

All 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.

The wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.

Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.

Love is too young to know what conscience is.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

The Snowball: How Warren Buffett Collected Friends Wisdom and Wealth.

Desire destroys devotion, anger destroys wisdom, greed destroys work - hence these bad qualities must be sacrificed. With good and sweet words, keeping desires under check and control (for ultimate removal) one should start on the path of sacrifice.

He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for Time is the greatest innovator: and if Time of course alter things to the worse and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better what shall be the end?.

It would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.

Make a proper investigation first. Proper investigation is good for a well-known person like yourself.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

And having wisdom with each studious year in meditation dwelt with learning wrought and shaped his weapon with an edge severe sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

You must enshrine in your hearts the spiritual urge towards light and love Wisdom and Bliss!

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Man has boyhood adolescence youth middle age and senescence as stages of growth, there are also corresponding stages in the growth of wisdom in him.

In science as in art and as I believe in every other sphere of human activity there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors but it is only in one or two of them.

We stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.

If suffering brings wisdom I would wish to be less wise.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning this nation trusted in God not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

As far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

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

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much, wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.

The fire of hatred that was burning in them was cooled, and darkness gave place to the dawn of wisdom. The sky showered raindrops to soften the earth and lay down dust. How can the lament operate against the Divine Will?

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom, to practice with vigor is near to benevolence, and to be conscious of shame is near to fortitude.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor, for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

The knowledge of the causal power of thought is the basis of all their (Hebrew) prophecies as it is the basis of all real wisdom and power.

As I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.

Adore Him(GOD) placing a garland of tears around His neck, washing His feet with tears springing from joy at the contemplation of His Love! That very worship will endow you with the wisdom that Sages seek and the Bliss that the Books extol!

Cleverness is not wisdom.

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.

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.

If thou would'st have that stream of hard-earn'd knowledge of Wisdom heaven-born remain sweet running waters thou should'st not leave it to become a stagnant pond.

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

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?

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men, but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars and lies in a very narrow compass.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax, government transfer payments have become less progressive.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.

Wisdom, I know, is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

Both in thought and in feeling even though time be real to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.

The only medicine for suffering crime and all other woes of mankind is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.

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.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

We give advice but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors' wisdom.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

They whom truth and wisdom lead can gather honey from a weed.

Knowing others is wisdom knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance.

The more tranquil a man becomes the greater is his success his influence his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Science investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.

The superior man is firm in the right way and not merely firm.

In societies where mature workers are respected and where their wisdom is respected everybody benefits. Workers are more engaged and productive. Their health is better. They live longer.

It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.

Where there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

We are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

The fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

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

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom not a guide by which to live.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Knowledge speaks but wisdom listens.

Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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.

Commonsense is the realised sense of proportion.

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod / Or Love in a golden bowl?

Poor and content is rich and rich enough.

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom, to serve all but love only one.

Five things constitute perfect virtue: gravity, magnanimity, earnestness, sincerity, kindness.