Wisdom Quotes

"The one who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The one who walks alone, is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been"

"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience"

"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"

"There are three faithful friends - an old wife, an old dog, and ready money"

"A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom"

"Cleverness is not wisdom"

"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them"

"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit"

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart"

"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom"

"The truest wisdom is a resolute determination"

"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone"

"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own"

"Winning is not everything, but wanting to win is"

"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it"

"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment"

"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek"

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man"

"Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength"

"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart"

"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points"

"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise"

"A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination"

"A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew"

"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round"

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it"

"Self-suggestion makes you master of yourself"

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf"

"Be happy. It's one way of being wise"

"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense"