Wisdom
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A single conversation across a table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books. - Chinese proverb
A smooth sea never made a skilled mariner. - English proverb
Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely. - Auguste Rodin
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday. - Abraham Lincoln
Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. - Sophocles
Great beginnings are not as important as the way one finishes. - Dr. James Dobson
'Beauty is truth, truth beauty' - that is all ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. - John Keats
Without haste, but without rest. - Goethe
Everyone is a prisoner of his own experiences. No one can eliminate prejudices - just recognize them. - Edward R. Murrow
Forgiveness does not change the past, but it does enlarge the future. - Paul Boese
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. - Hermann Hesse, Demian
I'm working to improve my methods, and every hour I save is an hour added to my life. - Ayn Rand
Everything has its beauty, but not everyone sees it. - Confucius
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: He that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. - Charles Caleb Colton
Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth
The journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. - Lao Tzu
Vision is the art of seeing things invisible to others. - Jonathon Swift
Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully. - Sarah Ban Breathnach
It is no use waiting for your ship to come in unless you have sent one out. - Belgian Proverb
Behold the turtle. He makes progress only when he sticks his neck out. - James Bryant Conant
The ear test words as the tongue tastes food. - The Bible, Job 34:3 NIV
Take rest. A field that has rested gives a beautiful crop. - Ovid
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their rightful names. - Chinese Proverb
God helps them that help themselves. {Maxims prefixed to Poor Richard's Almanac, 1757} - Benjamin Franklin
Never leave that till to-morrow which you can do to-day. - Benjamin Franklin
One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself. - Leonardo da Vinci
Give a man a fish, he'll eat for a day. Teach a man how to fish, he'll eat for a lifetime. - Ancient Proverb
The real voyage of discovery consists not of seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes... {1871-1922 - French Novelist} - Marcel Proust
Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands - a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. - Sidney Lovett
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, nor yet the last to lay the old aside. - Alexander Pope
You got to go there to know there. - Zora Neale Hurston
Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours. - Swedish Proverb
The whole is more than the sum of its parts. (from the Metaphysics) - Aristotle
The journey of discovery lies not in seeking new vistas but in having new eyes. - Rachel Naomi Remen
A falling drop at last will carve a stone. - Lucretius
A library may be very large; but if it is in disorder, it is not so useful as one that is small but well arranged. - Arthur Schopenhauer
Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. - Hal Borland
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall. - Confucius
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. - Ayn Rand
From a small seed a mighty trunk may grow. - Aeschylus
The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H.L. Mencken
The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go. - Dr. Seuss
If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. - Yogi Berra
If you don't know where you are going, any road will get you there. - Lewis Carroll
He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose. - Jim Elliot
Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana
Patience is a necessary ingredient of genius. - Benjamin Disraeli
No duty is more urgent than that of returning thanks. - James Allen
We are stronger when we listen, and smarter when we share. - Rania Al-Abdullah