I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.
- Heywood Broun American journalist (1888-1939).
One's first step in wisdom is to question everything and one's last
is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
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
The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.
- Lin Yutang
Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.
- George Arliss
The plainest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness:
her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.
- Michel de Montaigne
A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never let your sense of morals prevent you from doing what's right.
- Isaac Asimov
Honesty is the first chapter in the Book of wisdom.
Let it be our endeavor to merit the character of a just nation.
- Thomas Jefferson
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson The Forbes Book of Business Quotations
Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end.
- Spock Star Trek VI Final Frontier
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein
To keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
- Samuel Johnson
It takes humility to seek feedback. It takes wisdom to understand it, analyze it,
and appropriately act on it.
- Stephen R. Covey First Things First
Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone.
- Unknown
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet
The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has
increased so much faster than our wisdom
- Frank Whitmore
Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than polish.
- Anne Bradstreet, poet Dede Aday MacDonald
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.
- Admiral Richard E. Byrd
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
- Alexander Dumas
More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles
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