Wise Quotes, Wisdom Sayings - Page 6
+1Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don’t feel like doing them.
- Julius Erving
+1No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
- Brendan Francis
+1Think of birthdays this way: you’re not getting older, you’re getting wiser.
- Anonymous
+1Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
- Lao Tzu
+1A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
- James Keller
+1You can’t build a reputation on what you are going to do.
- Henry Ford
+1You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln
+1The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
— Henry Kissinger
+1You could write the story of man’s growth in terms of his epic concerns with water.
- Bernard Frank
+1Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.
- Anonymous
+1Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson
+1Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.
- Aristotle
+1Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
- Theodore Roosevelt
+1Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
- Pearl S. Buck
+1Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
+1Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.
- Mark Twain
+1It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
- Cicero
+1Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
+1Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge
+1All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau
+1Re-examine all you have been told . . . Dismiss what insults your Soul.
- Walt Whitman
+1Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn’t know you left open.
- John Barrymore
+1He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
- James Huneker
+1Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
- Bertolt Brecht
+1Wisdom is the reward for a lifetime of listening … when you’d have preferred to talk.
- D.J. Kaufman
+1In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it thou art a fool.
- Lord Chesterfield
+1Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tip toe.
- Josh Billings
+1Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
- Friedrich Nietzsche
+1Be humble, if thou would’st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.
- Helena Petrova
+1It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- William Ralph
+1We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid.He who understands the wise is wise already.
- G. C. Lichtenberg
+1He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
- Mary Wilson
+1All men have a sweetness in their life. That is what helps them go on. It is towards that they turn when they feel too worn out.
- Albert Camus
+1It is wise to apply the oil of refined politeness to the mechanisms of friendship.
- Colette
+1Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
- Benjamin Franklin
+1In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
- Homer J Simpson
+1Things sweet the taste prove in digestion sour.
- William Shakespeare
+1If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies.
- Helen Castle
+1A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare
