A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
By 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.
Confucius
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
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
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
By 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.
Confucius
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
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
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread.
Josh Billings
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
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
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau
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
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings
Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal
Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt
No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
Henry Ford
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Aeschylus
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan Kay
Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William Penn
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert Einstein
Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you.
Tom Hopkins
Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement Stone
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James
The best way to predict the future is to invent it.
Alan Kay
The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in.
Wilson Mizner
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin
The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
William Gibson
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
Daniel J. Boorstin
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
Jane Wyman
The 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.
Khalil Gibran
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
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
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
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
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
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
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
Khalil Gibran
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
Josh Billings
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
Benjamin Franklin
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
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
Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself.
Sidney Lanier
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
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
What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty.
Shinichi Suzuki
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
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
John F. Kennedy
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
Winners never quit and quitters never win.
Vince Lombardi
Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince Lombardi
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Teri Garr
Vince Lombardi
Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo
Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson
Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
Khalil Gibran
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
Diogenes
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis Bacon
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
Arthur Helps
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
Clarence Day
You have to find out what's right for you, so it's trial and error. You are going to be all right if you accept realistic goals for yourself.
Teri Garr
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