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The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.
The only way one can really understand what we are is by knowing yourself.
To know is not to be wise. To know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence.
Every evil, harm and suffering in this life comes from the love of riches.
Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without.
If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.
Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.
In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
The world is plentiful with honey, but only the humble bee can collect it.
Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
Tell no man anything, for no man listens Yet hold thy lips ready to speak.
Civilization is a movement and not a condition, a voyage and not a harbor.
Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
Beware of the flight of Blessings, For nothing that runs away is returned.
True success does not always come in forms that are visible or measurable.
Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.
Man becomes man only by his intelligence, but he is man only by his heart.
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
For those who realize that everything is from God, everything is the same.
He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.
We did not all come over on the same ship, but we are all in the same boat.
We gain nothing by trading the tyranny of capital for the tyranny of labor.
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.
As far as I'm concerned the only thing to do is sit in a room and get drunk
It is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
I have one small drop of knowing in my soul. Let it dissolve in your ocean.
Blessed are those who give without remembering and take without forgetting.
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
To be wicked does not insure prosperity - for the inn did not succeed well.
The most intense hatreds are not between political parties but within them.
One of the signs of relying on deeds is loss of hope when a misstep occurs.
Wisdom may be perennial, but to see its relevance we must see it lived out.
I've read the last page of the Bible. It's all going to turn out all right.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.
Most people know more as they get older: I give all that the cold shoulder.
The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated.
The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill-temper.
The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes.
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
Just because the tide is out, doesn't mean there is less water in the ocean.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.