Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.
Plato
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
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
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Lao Tzu
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 less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van Buren
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
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
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.
William Arthur Ward
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
John F. Kennedy
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth Kenny
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Aesop
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
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
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
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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