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The most important object in Boy Scout training is to educate, not instruct.
Data isn't information; information isn't knowledge; knowledge isn't wisdom.
There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money.
We are given up to those gods, those monsters, those giants, — our thoughts.
Actions are but lifeless forms whose soul is the secret of sincerity in them
Ninety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Our experience is composed rather of illusions lost than of wisdom acquired.
Prejudice is not so much dependent upon natural antipathy as upon education.
Is it not better to fail after asking advice than to risk acting on our own?
One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
[Marriage is] like signing a 356-page contract without knowing what's in it.
In nature there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
Don't be content to be the chip off the old block - be the old block itself.
A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.
Wisdom is only found in truth. [Ger., Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit.]
In idle wishes, fools supinely stay. Be there a will and wisdom finds a way.
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
With pride, there are many curses. With humility, there come many blessings.
First to become capable of love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.
In the end, it's the reality of personal realtionships that save everything.
If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
Happy nations have no history. History is the study of mankind's misfortune.
Absence of occupation is not rest; A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed.
Only fools think they're wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can.
It's the fear of what comes after the doing that makes the doing hard to do.
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
Lots of old people don't become wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.
It always makes me proud to love the world somehow- hate's so easy compared.
In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered.
To act with common sense according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know.
A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.
Friendship of the wise is good; a wise enemy is better than a foolish friend.
Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man's desire to understand.
If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
They (the poets) are to us in a manner the fathers and authors of the wisdom.
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth
Experience: that most brutal of teachers. But you learn, my God do you learn.
Life is no brief candle but a splendid torch made to burn ever more brightly.
To put everything in balance is good, to put everything in harmony is better.
Whoever desires to purify his heart, then let him prefer Allah to his desires
The wise are not so much wiser than others as respecters of their own wisdom.
Without memory, there is no healing. Without forgiveness, there is no future.
Change according to the Spirit all your priorities, and then joy is your own.
You can't drive into the future if you are looking into a rear vision mirror.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.