A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month''s study of books.
A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren''t we like that wise old bird?
If you hate a person, you hate something in something in him that is a part of yourself. What isn''t part of ourselves doesn''t disturb us.
In the space age the most important space is between the ears.
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.
Be happy. It''s one way of being wise.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
If past history was all there was to the game, the richest people would be librarians.
A single moment of understanding can flood a whole life with meaning.
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner.
A man dies daily, only to be reborn in the morning, bigger, better and wiser.
A road twice travelled is never as long.
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and ask, ''Where have I gone wrong?'' Then a voice says to me, ''This is going to take more than one night.''
The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.
If you want to know your past - look into your present conditions. If you want to know your future - look into your present actions.
A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.
It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out.
It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
The highest form of wisdom is kindness
We must become the change we want to see.
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
I''m working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
"Beauty is truth, truth beauty" - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
A wise man turns chance into good fortune. A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle.
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