| Quote 40 | Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. |
| Quote 98 | By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experienc... |
| Quote 113 | He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. |
| Quote 196 | Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart. |
| Quote 225 | He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. |
| Quote 235 | Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience. |
| Quote 280 | A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon |
| Quote 293 | A mistake is simply another way of doing things. |
| Quote 296 | Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world. |
| Quote 307 | It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see. |
| Quote 321 | Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Aeschylus |
| Quote 348 | As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round. |
| Quote 354 | Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. |
| Quote 435 | A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. |
| Quote 452 | In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool. |
| Quote 566 | Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates |
| Quote 715 | Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Augustine of Hippo |
| Quote 717 | We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. |
| Quote 802 | Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt |
| Quote 804 | Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Quote 972 | Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. |
| Quote 1125 | The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. |
| Quote 1233 | It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. |
| Quote 1277 | Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. |
| Quote 1351 | The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. |
| Quote 1440 | All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. |
| Quote 1452 | To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell |
| Quote 1502 | Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? |
| Quote 1924 | The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. |
| Quote 2447 | Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal. |
| Quote 2574 | Virtues are acquired through endeavor, Which rests wholly upon yourself. So, to praise others for their virtues can but encourage one's... |
| Quote 2690 | If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks. |
| Quote 2830 | Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one. |
| Quote 3034 | A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost |
| Quote 3105 | The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Benjamin Franklin |
| Quote 3133 | Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. |
| Quote 3333 | Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Euripides |
| Quote 3380 | It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. |
| Quote 3530 | Wisdom begins at the end.
- Daniel Webster |
| Quote 3568 | Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo |
| Quote 4182 | It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. |
| Quote 4321 | Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity. |
| Quote 4676 | Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. |
| Quote 4789 | The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. |
| Quote 5311 | Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles |
| Quote 7063 | Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. |
| Quote 7688 | There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money. |
| Quote 7711 | It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them. |
| Quote 7768 | If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing ... |
| Quote 7876 | Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. |
| Quote 7881 | The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease. |
| Quote 7987 | Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men. |
| Quote 8010 | Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. |
| Quote 8205 | Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them. |
| Quote 8305 | It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. |
| Quote 8306 | Who is wise in love, love most, say least.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson |
| Quote 8316 | Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. |
| Quote 8396 | Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. |
| Quote 8478 | You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own. |
| Quote 8487 | Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
- Aeschylus |
| Quote 8551 | Wise men make more opportunities than they find. |
| Quote 8622 | Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles |
| Quote 8695 | A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. |
| Quote 8714 | Rarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform. |
| Quote 8842 | 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. |
| Quote 9031 | The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. |
| Quote 9573 | The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. |
| Quote 9596 | Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. |
| Quote 9598 | The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it. |
| Quote 9640 | Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. |
| Quote 9664 | Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away. |
| Quote 9732 | The best way to predict the future is to invent it. |
| Quote 9748 | Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. |
| Quote 9855 | I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. |
| Quote 9923 | He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass. |
| Quote 10045 | 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. |
| Quote 10095 | When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps. |
| Quote 10171 | The difference between chirping out of turn and a faux pas depends on what kind of a bar you're in. |
| Quote 10407 | Winners never quit and quitters never win.
- Vince Lombardi |
| Quote 10420 | 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. |
| Quote 10489 | What is man's ultimate direction in life? It is to look for love, truth, virtue, and beauty. |
| Quote 10886 | Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
- Alan Kay |
| Quote 10941 | It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. |
| Quote 10965 | Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- Tobias Smollett |
| Quote 11014 | Repeat anything often enough and it will start to become you. |
| Quote 11035 | When written in Chinese, the word "crisis" is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportuni... |
| Quote 11069 | The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet. |
| Quote 11158 | The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. |
| Quote 11171 | Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
- Phil Jackson |
| Quote 11189 | The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. |
| Quote 11232 | 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 hi... |
| Quote 11238 | 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. |
| Quote 11418 | In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. |
| Quote 11492 | Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
- Ben Hogan |
| Quote 11567 | 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 fo... |
| Quote 11578 | Turn your wounds into wisdom.
- Oprah Winfrey |
| Quote 11625 | From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own. |
| Quote 11765 | 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... |
| Quote 11915 | Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken. |
| Quote 12075 | Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it. |
| Quote 12214 | We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. |
| Quote 12220 | Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is. |
| Quote 12337 | The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge. |
| Quote 12341 | There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. |
| Quote 12415 | 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. |
| Quote 12794 | The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it. |
| Quote 12846 | 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. |
| Quote 13065 | Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. |
| Quote 13090 | Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. |
| Quote 13505 | Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. |
| Quote 13557 | No man was ever wise by chance.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca |
| Quote 13615 | If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to sto... |
| Quote 13706 | Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. |
| Quote 13981 | Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. |