It is better to rust out than wear out.
- Edwin Markham
Honesty is the best policy.
- Benjamin Franklin
The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.
- John F. Kennedy
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The soul's joy lies in doing.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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 for yourself.
- Teri Garr
All things must come to the soul from its roots, from where it is planted.
- Saint Teresa of Avila
A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
- Herb Caen
Leave no stone unturned.
- Euripides
Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.
- George Allen, Sr.
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
- Leo Buscaglia
Trouble shared is trouble halved.
- Lee Iacocca
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.
- Ethel Barrymore
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.
- George Santayana
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
- William Temple
Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
- Thomas J. Watson
This is what I learned: that everybody is talented, original and has something important to say.
- Brenda Ueland
True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal
If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
- Richard Whately
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
- Arthur Helps
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
- Henry David Thoreau
A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.
- Nelson Mandela
Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles
He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
- Edgar Fiedler
Plodding wins the race.
- Aesop
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.
- Alfred Austin
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
- Khalil Gibran
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
- Bertrand Russell
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
- John Henry Newman
The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.
- John Burroughs
People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
- Anton Chekhov
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
- H. L. Mencken
Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
- Benjamin Franklin
It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.
- Orison Swett Marden
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
- Francis Bacon
A mistake is simply another way of doing things.
- Katharine Graham
How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.
- Coco Chanel
You can't sweep other people off their feet, if you can't be swept off your own.
- Clarence Day
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Aeschylus
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.
- Diogenes
Think big thoughts but relish small pleasures.
- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
First appearance deceives many.
- Ovid
When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.
- Isaac Bashevis Singer
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
- Harold S. Geneen
Everything important always begins from something trivial.
- Donald Hall
Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.
- A. C. Benson
Never reach out your hand unless you're willing to extend an arm.
- Pope Paul VI
Be as you wish to seem.
- Socrates
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
- Lao Tzu
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.
- John Wooden
Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.
- Jim Rohn
When written in Chinese, the word 'crisis' is composed of two characters. One represents danger and the other represents opportunity.
- John F. Kennedy
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
- Henry Ward Beecher
An ounce of cheerfulness is worth a pound of sadness to serve God with.
- Thomas Fuller
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
- Thomas A. Edison
It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus
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 hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
- Akhenaton
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
- Ron White
Cleverness is not wisdom.
- Euripides
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
- Khalil Gibran
Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
- Saint Augustine
From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
- Publilius Syrus
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.
- Sara Teasdale
The more one pleases everybody, the less one pleases profoundly.
- Stendhal
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
- Will Rogers
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
- Denis Waitley
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
- George Eliot
You can observe a lot by watching.
- Yogi Berra
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
- Francis Bacon
To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan; you should wear it inside, where it functions best.
- Margaret Thatcher
Look twice before you leap.
- Charlotte Bronte
Please all, and you will please none.
- Aesop
A man should always consider how much he has more than he wants.
- Joseph Addison
I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.
- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Eventually, we reach the point where we start to realize that we are not going to find peace, contentment, happiness, strength, fearlessness - all of the things that in our heart of hearts we wish we had - outside of us.
- Guy Finley
A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
- Robert Frost
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
- Confucius
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens
Suffering is one of life's great teachers.
- Bryant H. McGill
Climb the mountains and get their good tidings.
- John Muir
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
- Horace
No one wants advice - only corroboration.
- John Steinbeck
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
- Victor Hugo
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- George Santayana
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
Wisdom is found only in truth.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Look around for a place to sow a few seeds.
- Henry Van Dyke
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and without views.
- Nikolai Gogol
Man is only great when he acts from passion.
- Benjamin Disraeli
Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates
The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
- Napoleon Bonaparte