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A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
Nelson Mandela
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine Graham
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert Frost
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Francis Bacon
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.
Moliere
Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David Thoreau
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
George Santayana
Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil Jackson
As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round.
Ben Hogan
Be happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone.
Baltasar Gracian
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
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
John Muir
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
Jim Rohn
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
Friedrich Nietzsche
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
Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.
Dan Rather
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.
Thomas B. Macaulay
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius Syrus
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
Archimedes
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
Henry Ward Beecher
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Huneker
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. Fiedler
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.
Thomas Jefferson
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.
Josh Billings
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Lord Salisbury
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.
Nelson Mandela
If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.
Sidney Lanier
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
Michael Jordan
Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
John Muir
