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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
— George Bernard Shaw
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
— Jim Rohn
The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention.
— John Burroughs
The pessimist complains about the wind the optimist expects it to change the realist adjusts the sails. 
— William Arthur Ward
It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen.
— John Wooden
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
— John Wooden
Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom - and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.
— Benjamin Franklin
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
— John C. Maxwell
Our character is what we do when we think no one is looking.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.
— Henry Ford
The more you like yourself, the less you are like anyone else, which makes you unique.
— Walt Disney
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
— Confucius
Don't gain the world and lose your soul wisdom is better than silver or gold. 
— Bob Marley
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there.
— Lewis Carroll
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
— Lao Tzu
Be as you wish to seem.
— Socrates
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
— Thomas A. Edison
The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Commitment is an act, not a word.
— Jean-Paul Sartre
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility. 
— Eleanor Roosevelt
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
— Will Rogers
O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!
— Walter Scott
The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
— Thomas Hobbes
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
— Socrates
Set your course by the stars, not by the lights of every passing ship.
— Omar N. Bradley
It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
— Elizabeth Kenny
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
— Anton Chekhov
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
— Archimedes
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.
— Richard M. Nixon
When in doubt, don't.
— Benjamin Franklin
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
— Epictetus
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose.
— Jim Elliot
Wisdom begins in wonder.
— Socrates
A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.
— Thomas Paine
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
— Benjamin Franklin
Everything comes to us that belongs to us if we create the capacity to receive it.
— Rabindranath Tagore
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
— Abraham Maslow
Never interrupt someone doing what you said couldn't be done.
— Amelia Earhart
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
— Plato
The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
A charming woman... doesn't follow the crowd. She is herself.
— Loretta Young
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.
— Socrates
But 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 Burke
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
— Saint Teresa of Avila
Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
— Robert H. Schuller
It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
— Pablo Picasso
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
— Og Mandino
Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best. 
— Henry Van Dyke
He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.
— Marcus Aurelius
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
— Robert Kennedy
We cannot become what we need to be by remaining what we are.
— Max de Pree
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
— George Eliot
We humans have lost the wisdom of genuinely resting and relaxing. We worry too much. We don't allow our bodies to heal, and we don't allow our minds and hearts to heal.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Once you label me you negate me.
— Soren Kierkegaard
Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.
— Paul Greengrass
You can observe a lot by watching.
— Yogi Berra
Hurricane Katrina overwhelmed levees and exploded the conventional wisdom about a shared American prosperity, exposing a group of people so poor they didn't have $50 for a bus ticket out of town. If we want to learn something from this disaster, the lesson ought to be: America's poor deserve better than this.
— Michael Eric Dyson
Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.
— Doris Lessing
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
— Marlo Thomas
Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.
— Charles Stanley
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
— Michel de Montaigne
Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours.
— C. S. Lewis
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
— Will Rogers
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
— John F. Kennedy
Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.
— Buddha
Appearances are often deceiving.
— Aesop
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
— Elizabeth Bibesco
What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.
— Ellen Glasgow
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
— Juvenal
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. 
— Sydney J. Harris
Please all, and you will please none.
— Aesop
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
— Orison Swett Marden
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut, that held its ground.
— David Icke
It isn't what you do, but how you do it.
— John Wooden
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
— Robert Frost
Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.
— Epicurus
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
— John Steinbeck
I praise loudly. I blame softly.
— Catherine the Great
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
— Leonard Nimoy
Beware, so long as you live, of judging men by their outward appearance.
— Jean de La Fontaine
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.
— William Cowper
The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet.
— William Gibson
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
— Brenda Ueland
Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
— Richard Whately
Quick decisions are unsafe decisions.
— Sophocles
But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.
— Sylvia Plath
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times.
— Chris Christie
Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.
— Nelson Mandela
Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.
— Sam Walton
Never find fault with the absent.
— Alexander Pope
The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
— Honore de Balzac
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.
— Robert E. Lee
It is impossible to love and to be wise.
— Francis Bacon
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
My advice to you is not to inquire why or whither, but just enjoy your ice cream while it's on your plate.
— Thornton Wilder
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
— William Wordsworth
'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.
— Gene Roddenberry
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
— Akhenaton
To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
— James Buchanan
Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.
— Sara Teasdale
The less you talk, the more you're listened to.
— Pauline Phillips
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
— Aesop
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
— Francis Bacon
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
— Francis Bacon
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
— John Burroughs
It is the mind that maketh good or ill, That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.
— Michel de Montaigne
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.
— Torquato Tasso
Holy wisdom confounds Satan and all his wickednesses.
— Francis of Assisi
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
— Theodore Isaac Rubin
Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.
— Yoko Ono
I think we are evolving rapidly into one world culture. It's certainly one world economy. With billions of people online, I think we'll appreciate the wisdom in many different traditions as we learn more about them. People were very isolated and didn't know anything about other religions 100 years ago.
— Ray Kurzweil
Contrary to conventional wisdom, the blue blazer's a bit of a loose cannon. A suit decided long ago what it wanted to be, and it doesn't want to hear your ideas, but a blue blazer only got around to half the job. So it leaves it up to you to find its bottoms. Gray slacks, blue jeans, patterns, white pants and different blue shades all work.
— Willie Geist
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
— Julian Casablancas
The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.
— William Osler
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
— Jane Fonda
Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better.
— Travis Bradberry
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. 
— Francis Bacon
In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand.
— Trent Reznor
Many sophisticated, intelligent people lack wisdom and common sense.
— Joyce Meyer
I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.
— John Updike
The word philosophy sounds high-minded, but it simply means the love of wisdom. If you love something, you don't just read about it; you hug it, you mess with it, you play with it, you argue with it.
— Hugh Jackman
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
— Franz Kafka
If you wish to reach the highest, begin at the lowest.
— Publilius Syrus
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
— Yogi Berra
Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
— Carl Sandburg
Never accept ultimatums, conventional wisdom, or absolutes.
— Christopher Reeve
All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.
— Maimonides
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
— Anatole France
Success is not to be pursued it is to be attracted by the person you become. 
— Jim Rohn
All of us, at certain moments of our lives, need to take advice and to receive help from other people.
— Alexis Carrel
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
— Ben Hogan
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
— Benjamin Disraeli
A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.
— Charlotte Bronte
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
— Dan Rather
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. 
— Diogenes
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
— Doug Larson
Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.
— Edward Everett Hale
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. 
— Elbert Hubbard
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
— Ethel Barrymore
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
— Isaac Bashevis Singer
This is the highest wisdom that I own freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew. 
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
— Khalil Gibran
It's easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.
— Leonardo da Vinci
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
— Margaret Thatcher
Every silver lining has a cloud.
— Mary Kay Ash
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
— Arthur Helps
Wisdom sails with wind and time.
— John Florio
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
— Nikolai Gogol
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
— Stendhal
A monarchy conducted with infinite wisdom and infinite benevolence is the most perfect of all possible governments.
— Ezra Stiles
Pure, holy simplicity confounds all the wisdom of this world and the wisdom of the flesh.
— Francis of Assisi
The philosophy of life is this: Life is not a struggle, not a tension... Life is bliss. It is eternal wisdom, eternal existence.
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
— Constantin Stanislavski
Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
— Saadi
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. 
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
— Wilson Mizner
True wisdom listens more, talks less and can get along with all types of people.
— Kiana Tom
I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.
— Ben Carson
One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.
— Sam Harris
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
— Norman Cousins
Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.
— Plato
Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.
— Cyril Connolly
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.
— Mary Kay Ash
We don't receive wisdom we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. 
— Marcel Proust
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. 
— Samuel Johnson
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
— Alan Paton
Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
— Havelock Ellis
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.
— Friedrich Schiller
Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
— Walter Scott
If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one; and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.
— Lord Byron
I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in quest of the sacred knowing of the ancients. 
— Gustave Courbet
Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.
— Gabriel Marcel
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
— Aristophanes
To know one's self is wisdom, but not to know one's neighbors is genius.
— Minna Antrim
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. 
— Plutarch
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
— Reinhold Niebuhr
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.
— James Madison
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
— Henry David Thoreau
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
— Sophocles
I'm married. My wife, Stella - a beautiful woman. She's brought a lot of peace to my life, a lot of wisdom.
— Anthony Hopkins
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.
— Hillary Clinton
When I wrote Living in the Light, I wanted to share about how I live my own life and to encourage people to tap into their own inner wisdom.
— Shakti Gawain
It doesn't matter how much wisdom you have. If you don't have position, you have nothing. That's the tragedy of India.
— Rahul Gandhi
Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.
— Ram Dass
It is plain to me that our prelates, in granting indulgences, do commonly blaspheme the wisdom of God.
— John Wycliffe
What I want is to have people's notion of adulthood no longer be so defined by being a parent. There is some kind of conventional wisdom that you're not really a mature person until you become a parent.
— Meghan Daum
I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.
— Oprah Winfrey
When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'
— Robert Redford
The thing that we possess, that machines don't, is the ability to exhibit wisdom.
— Herbie Hancock
I find that to be a fool as to worldly wisdom, and to commit my cause to God, not fearing to offend men, who take offence at the simplicity of truth, is the only way to remain unmoved at the sentiments of others.
— John Woolman
The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true.
— Lactantius
Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.
— Franz Grillparzer
History is filled with tragic examples of wars that result from diplomatic impasse. Whether in our local communities or in international relations, the skillful use of our communicative capacities to negotiate and resolve differences is the first evidence of human wisdom.
— Daisaku Ikeda
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
— John Burnside
A grandparent can be simply affirming. A grandparent has been there, done that child-raising stuff, and has the wisdom of experience. And so in some ways, they're free to love without the anxiety of being the actual parents. They're free to give.
— Jewell Parker Rhodes
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.
— Francis Bacon
Sometimes in international politics, the better part of wisdom is to defer dangers rather than try to eliminate them altogether instantly.
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
— Anne Lamott
What I've been able to do with my character, Madea, and the other characters, with the jokes, is use it as an anesthetic to get to the heart and soul of real issues. And what I've found on stage over the years is that, while making people laugh, I can drop in pearls of wisdom.
— Tyler Perry
If you have a vaccine or an antidote that people can benefit from, you're not going to want to keep it to yourself. You're going to want to spread that wisdom or whatever to as many people as you can, so everybody can benefit from it.
— will.i.am
Protection, as we use the word in Buddhism, is actually wisdom, it's insight. Protection is seeing and knowing deeply that all things in our experience arise due to causes, due to conditions coming together in a certain way.
— Sharon Salzberg
I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.
— Eric Clapton
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
— Charles Stanley
Through the years, I, like you, have experienced pressures and disappointments that would have crushed me had I not been able to draw upon a source of wisdom and strength far greater than my own. He has never forgotten or forsaken me, and I have come to know for myself that Jesus is the Christ and that this is His Church.
— Sheri L. Dew
You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people don't see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom.
— Eric Ries
I think we do need to try to not just rely on the central bank to, in its wisdom, adjust interest rates, but allow for people to avoid being exposed to inflation risk.
— Robert J. Shiller
The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
— Don Shula
I love wisdom. And you can never be great at anything unless you love it. Not be in love with it, but love the thing, admire the thing. And it seems that if you love the thing, and you don't just want to possess it, it will find you.
— Maya Angelou
When an opponent comes forward, move in and greet him; if he wants to pull back, send him on his way.
— Morihei Ueshiba
Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.
— John Paul Jones
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
— Adlai E. Stevenson
If an idea is indeed sensible, it will eventually become just part of the accepted wisdom.
— Nigel Farage
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
— Bertrand Russell
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.
— Stephen Colbert
Applause is a receipt, not a bill.
— Dale Carnegie
The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.
— Josh Billings
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
— Anatole France
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
— Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
— Charles Dickens
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.
— John Keats
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Look twice before you leap.
— Charlotte Bronte
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
Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.
— Chen Shui-bian
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
— Pope Paul VI
When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.
— George C. Marshall
We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.
— James M. Barrie
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
— Aristotle
Kindness is wisdom.
— Philip James Bailey
The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
— William Blake
It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
— William Butler Yeats
There's something peculiar about writing fiction. It requires an interesting balance between seeing the world as a child and having the wisdom of a middle-aged person. The further you get from childhood and the experience of the teenage years, the greater the danger of losing that wellspring.
— Kazuo Ishiguro
Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.
— John D. Rockefeller
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
— Henry David Thoreau
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is better to rust out than wear out.
— Edwin Markham
First appearance deceives many.
— Ovid
Let deeds match words.
— Plautus
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
— Saint Augustine
The fall of dropping water wears away the Stone.
— Lucretius
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
— Ron White
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy ax without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
— Anne Bradstreet
Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment.
— Steve Albini
All wisdom does not reside in Delhi.
— P. Chidambaram
Some coaches pray for wisdom. I pray for 260-pound tackles. They'll give me plenty of wisdom.
— Chuck Noll
While people are quick to praise the wisdom of the crowd, being an old-school journalist, I look at the wisdom of the crowd and know it can quickly turn into a mob mentality.
— Jason Calacanis
Habit is the nursery of errors.
— Victor Hugo
The extreme limit of wisdom, that's what the public calls madness.
— Jean Cocteau
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.
— Barack Obama
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
— Jay Griffiths
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
— Aeschylus
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
— Henry Van Dyke
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
— Mason Cooley
A mouse does not rely on just one hole.
— Plautus
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
— Sophocles
Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy. 
— William Temple
Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.
— Rabindranath Tagore
Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
— Bertolt Brecht
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.
— Thomas Huxley
We must learn from the sermons of Christ, the wisdom of Laotzu, the teachings of Buddha.
— Charles Lindbergh
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
— Paul Engle
Many people have their reputations as reporters and analysts because they are on television, batting around conventional wisdom. A lot of these people have never reported a story.
— Bob Woodward
A wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
— Richard Le Gallienne
Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
— Herbert Hoover
It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.
— Margaret Fuller
If you have the insight of non-self, if you have the insight of impermanence, you should make that insight into a concentration that you keep alive throughout the day. Then what you say, what you think, and what you do will then be in the light of that wisdom and you will avoid making mistakes and creating suffering.
— Thich Nhat Hanh
The best wisdom is earned through experience, particularly mistakes.
— Sophia Amoruso
Multicolored stones and paintings, walkways, and theaters are useless in a city unless it also contains wisdom and law. Such things are the subject of wisdom and law, not equivalent to them.
— Apollonius of Tyana
We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.
— Adrian Grenier
Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.
— John Burroughs
Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.
— Estelle Getty
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
— Mason Cooley
Knowing that you are going to die is, I suspect, the beginning of wisdom.
— Terry Pratchett
Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
— Alfred North Whitehead
Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
— Leo Buscaglia
Seek the lofty by reading, hearing and seeing great work at some moment every day.
— Thornton Wilder
Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.
— James Newman
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.
— Maria Montessori
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
— Alan Kay
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
— Alexander Woollcott
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
— Baltasar Gracian
Wisdom begins at the end.
— Daniel Webster
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
— Doug Larson
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
— Edgar Fiedler
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
— Herb Caen
Strong characters are brought out by change of situation, and gentle ones by permanence.
— Jean Paul
Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.
— John Cheever
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
— Joseph Addison
It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.
— Thomas Huxley
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
— Tom Wilson
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
— John Henry Newman
If fortune favors you do not be elated if she frowns do not despond. 
— Ausonius
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.
— Owen Feltham
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.
— Abraham Cahan
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
— Donald Hall
A short saying often contains much wisdom.
— Sophocles
Lord, give us the wisdom to utter words that are gentle and tender, for tomorrow we may have to eat them.
— Mo Udall
Has fortune dealt you some bad cards. Then let wisdom make you a good gamester.
— Francis Quarles
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
— William Penn
Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.
— Plautus
You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.
— Harry Dean Stanton
Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.
— Joseph Stiglitz
The wisdom acquired with the passage of time is a useless gift unless you share it.
— Esther Williams
It's very hard to know what wisdom is.
— James Hillman
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
— Louis D. Brandeis
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
— Aeschylus
There is as much wisdom in listening as there is in speaking - and that goes for all relationships, not just romantic ones.
— Daniel Dae Kim
We all have within us a deep wisdom, but sometimes we don't know we have it.
— Shakti Gawain
I'm someone who's done the opposite of whatever the received wisdom is, to keep your career going into your 50s.
— Elizabeth McGovern
You know, many people have said that I'm on the edge and I'm maverick for some of the big operations that I've done. I'm not at all. I pray; I ask God to give me wisdom, 'Should I do it?', guidance in terms of how to do it, who to consult with. All those kind of things are incredibly important.
— Ben Carson
I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.
— Susan Orlean
I don't want to put a pause on the rest of my life I'm really enjoying getting older and the wisdom that comes from that. 
— Rosemarie DeWitt
I think I got a lot of life skills I got a lot of wisdom I've seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people. 
— Young Jeezy
I had more energy at 50. On the other hand, at 75, I've probably got a little more wisdom and good judgment than I had at 50 because I've got more experience. But I haven't really changed. I'm still driven by the same philosophy.
— Ted Turner
By the time you've reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.
— Terry Pratchett
While I have no empirical evidence to back this up, I bet that the number of homosexual people per thousand has not fluctuated all that much over the centuries. I do not believe the dented wisdom my father used to extol, that homosexuality was a sure sign of a civilization in decline.
— Henry Rollins
My first spoken word poem, packed with all the wisdom of a 14-year-old, was about the injustice of being seen as unfeminine. The poem was very indignant, and mainly exaggerated, but the only spoken word poetry that I had seen up until that point was mainly indignant, so I thought that that's what was expected of me.
— Sarah Kay
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
— Ma Huateng
First a piece of Irish wisdom: you should always listen to a bookie. For they have a saying, 'Money tells a good story,' and somewhere in their odds is a kind of science-fiction existentialism that decrees that we, the people, know everything. In other words, betting patterns often make for good, unconscious soothsaying.
— Frank Delaney
By definition, the Singularity means that machines would be smarter than us, and, in their wisdom, they can innovate new technologies. The innovations would come so quickly, and increasingly quickly, that the innovation would make Moore's Law seem as antiquated as Hammurabi's Code.
— Marvin Ammori
The All-Wise Maker attaches hundreds of instances of wisdom to each of the beings in the palace of the universe and equips them to perform hundreds of duties. To all trees He bestows instances of wisdom to the number of its fruits and gives duties to the number of its flowers.
— Said Nursi
Keep well that is the half of wisdom and of happiness. 
— Emile Zola
The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.
— John Quincy Adams
A cardinal rule in budgeting and saving is to pay yourself first. Once your paycheck hits your account, wisdom has it that you should move some amount to savings even before you pay the bills.
— John Rampton
For myself, I think that those who cultivate wisdom and believe themselves able to instruct their fellow-citizens as to their interests are least likely to become partisans of violence. They are too well aware that to violence attach enmities and dangers, whereas results as good may be obtained by persuasion safely and amicably.
— Xenophon
We must work toward cyber doctrine that reflects the wisdom of free markets, private competition, and the important but limited role of government in establishing and enforcing the rule of law, honoring the rights of personal property, the benefits of free and fair trade, and the fundamental principles of liberty.
— Thomas Bossert
Contrary to popular wisdom, the mark of a great meeting is not how short it is or whether it ends on time. The key is whether it ends with clarity and commitment from participants.
— Patrick Lencioni
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.
— Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
— Samuel Smiles
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. 
— Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.
— Francis Hutcheson
The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.
— Edward Young
The gods do not need sacrifices, so what might one do to please them? Acquire wisdom, it seems to me, and do all the good in one's power to those humans who deserve it.
— Apollonius of Tyana
I don't see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.
— Henry Kissinger
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.
— Thomas Jefferson
However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
— Mason Cooley
Blessed are they who seek to learn wisdom.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Just the simple act of sharing wisdom is something that many parents have left to society to do; however, that is not what God teaches in His word.
— Monica Johnson
Alas, those six unfortunate souls who have made their way through my books know that every one of them is about Emerson and Thoreau and their dark counters, Melville and Emily Dickinson. Try as I might, I can't get their inspirations, their challenges and sentences and wisdom and questions out of my head.
— Pico Iyer
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
— Vincent Bugliosi
This society in which we live is radically changing. What previous generations saw as evil is now embraced as being good. It is a dangerous and slippery slope upon which we stand when we reject what Solomon called the beginning of wisdom - the fear of God.
— Ray Comfort
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
— Henry David Thoreau
I'm a member of the 1960s generation. We didn't have any wisdom.
— P. J. O'Rourke
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
— Aristotle
I consider wisdom supernatural because it isn't taught by men - it's a gift from God.
— Joyce Meyer
I reject most conventional wisdom.
— Rush Limbaugh
Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'
— Zig Ziglar
Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
— Khalil Gibran
It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
My company survives because I've learned to respect the ideas of people younger than me and recognize when my wisdom is obsolete.
— Robert Kiyosaki
The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
— Victor Hugo
It used to be, it is accepted scientific wisdom the Earth is flat, and this heretic named Galileo was branded a denier.
— Ted Cruz
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
— Ezra Taft Benson
Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life.
— Ezra Taft Benson
Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
— John Updike
The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
— John Updike
The 'Reader's Digest' used to run a feature called 'It Pays to Increase Your Word Power.' The new wisdom - post-Trump and Brexit - is that it doesn't.
— Howard Jacobson
The conventional wisdom is that if you are gay, you cannot play the romantic straight lead in a movie.
— Ian Mckellen
In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
— Deepak Chopra
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 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. Eisenhower