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
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
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
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander Pope
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.
Walter Benjamin
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
Alfred Austin
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur Schopenhauer
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
Denis Waitley
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
Anton Chekhov
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
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
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
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 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
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
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
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