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
