Sayings on Wisdom

1 Be the change you want to see in the world. Gandhi 2 The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; The unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man. George Bernard Shaw 3 If not you, who else? Terry Pratchett 4 We will be known forever by the tracks we leave Native American bb 5 A poet begins in delight and ends in wisdom. Robert Frost 6 Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lloyd Tennyson 7 Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. Aesop 8 The Fool wonders; the wise man asks Benjamin Disraeli 9 Knowledge cuts up the world. Wisdom makes it whole. Brazilian proverb 10 He is slow to anger. Has great wisdom. He who has a quick temper exalts fully the Bible

11 Knowing others is intelligence Knowing yourself is true wisdom Mastering others is strength Mastering yourself is true power Tao Te Ching 12 The wisdom of hindsight is of no use whatsoever Indian proverb 13 Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon or star. Confucius 14 To act according to the moment is the best wisdom I know. Horace Walpole 15 Don't walk behind me I may not lead Don't walk in front of me I may not follow Walk beside me That that we may be as one. Native American proverb 16 Don't approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back, or a fool from any side. Jewish proverb 17 Walk lightly in the spring Mother Earth is about to give birth. Native American proverb 18 Wise men see and hear as little children do. Lao Tsu 19 All things by immortal power are To one another joined So that one cannot disturb a flower Without the troubling of a star Frances Thompson 20 Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy gives us wisdom. Will Durant

21 Whoever in this world overcomes their selfish cravings, their sorrows fall away, like drops of water from a lotus flower. Dhammapada 22 Time ripens all things; no person is born wise. Cervantes 23 Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting The soul that raises with us, our life's star Hath elsewhere had its setting And cometh from afar. William Wordsworth 24 Your own soul is nourished when you are kind; it is destroyed when you are cruel. King Solomon 25 I have come into the world to see this: The sword drops from men's hands Even at the height of the arc of rage Because we have finally realised There is just one flesh we can wound. Hafiz 26 The golden rule is that there is no golden rule. George Bernard Shaw 27 Those who would be constant in happiness or wisdom must change often. Confucius 28 Clouds come floating into my life. No longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add colour to my sunset sky. Rabindranath Tragore 29 In the depth of winter I finally learnt that there was in me an invincible summer. Albert Camus 30 It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. Sam Levenson

31 One should go invited to a friend in good fortune; and uninvited in misfortune. Swedish proverb 32 We must take change by the hand, or rest assuredly, change will take us by the throat. Winston Churchill 33 Mortals grow swiftly in misfortune. Hesiod 34 The man who never alters his opinions is like standing water, and breeds reptiles of the mind. William Blake 35 Here is the rule to remember in the future. When anything tempts you to be bitter: not ‘This is a misfortune’ but ‘To bear this worthily is good fortune’. Marcus Aurelius 36 The greatest strength is gentleness. North American proverb 37 Humankind has not woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it. Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. Chief Seattle 38 I love those who can smile in trouble; who can gather strength from distress; and grow grave by reflection. ’Tis the business of little minds to shrink. But they whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves their conduct will pursue their principles unto death. Leonardo da Vinci 39 Firelight won't let you read fine stories, But it's warm and you won't see the dust on the floor. Irish proverb 40 I have been to the end of the Earth. I have been to the end of the water. I have been to the end of the sky. I have been to the end of the mountains. I have found none that are not my friends. Navajo poem

41 The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing, it rejects nothing. It receives but does not keep. Chiang Tzu 42 A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small parcel. John Ruskin 43 Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants. Michael Pollan 44 A fools sees not the same tree that a wise man sees. William Blake 45 It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Charles Darwin 46 Money is like gasoline during a road trip. You don't want to run out of a run out of gas on your trip, but you're not doing a tour of gas stations. Tim O'Reilly 47 I long to accomplish a great and noble task; But my chief duty is to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble. Helen Keller 48 If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed. C.S. Lewis 49 If every fool wore a crown, we'd all be kings. Welsh proverb 50 When pride cometh, then cometh shame; But with the lowly is wisdom. The Bible

51 No mention shall be made of coral, or of pearls. For the price of wisdom is above rubies. The Bible 52 What soup is to the body, laughter is to the soul. Yiddish proverb 53 What is it to be wise? ‘Tis but to know how little can be known To see all others faults, and feel our own. Alexander Pope 54 Science is organised knowledge. Wisdom is organised life. Immanuel Kant 55 The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. Pierre Abelard 56 The doors of wisdom are never shut. Benjamin Franklin 57 Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. André Gide 58 A word to the wise ain't necessary; it's the stupid ones who need the advice. Bill Cosby 59 If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; But if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. Frances Bacon 60 Each morning sees some task begun Each evening sees it close Something attempted, something done Has earned a night's repose. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

61 The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James 62 The best way to avoid a bad action is by doing a good one. John Clare 63 A stumble may prevent a fall. Thomas Fuller 64 You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz 65 Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster 66 Thinking is easy but acting is difficult, And to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult thing in the world. Johann Wolfgang van Goethe 67 Some folks are wise, and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett 68 The whom, truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper 69 Be happy. It is one way of being wise. Colette 70 Life is what happens to you when you're busy making other plans. John Lennon

71 Human felicity is produced not so much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen, as by little advantages that occur everyday. Benjamin Franklin 72 What do I think of Western civilisation? I think it would be a very good idea. Gandhi 73 Almost every wise saying has an opposite, no less wise, to balance it. George Santayana 74 A loving heart is the truest wisdom Charles Dickens 75 Beside the noble art of getting things done, There is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. Yutang Lin 76 A mistake is simply another way of doing things. Katherine Graham 77 The man of wisdom is never of two minds; The man of benevolence never worries; The man of courage is never afraid. Confucius 78 The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. Ralph Waldo Emerson 79 Wisdom is oft times nearer when we stoop than when we soar William Wordsworth 80 Patience is the companion of wisdom. Saint Augustine

81 Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. Samuel Tayler Coleridge 82 Learning, sleeps and snores in libraries, But wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoes. Josh Billings 83 The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare 84 The Lord prefers common looking people. That's why he makes so many of them. Abraham Lincoln 85 Science investigates, religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge, which is power. Religion gives man wisdom, which is control. Science deals mainly with facts, religion mainly with values. The two are not rivals. Martin Luther King 86 A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen 87 Years teach us more than books. Berthold Auerbach 88 The only medicine for the suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Thomas Huxley 89 The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right. William Hazlitt 90 Not to know at large of things remote From use, obscure and subtle, but to know That which before us lies in daily life Is the prime wisdom. John Milton

91 No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. Eleanor Roosevelt 92 One must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean: if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. Gandhi 93 If you speak softly and carry a big stick, you will go far. Theodore Roosevelt 94 Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win. Jonathan Kozol 95 There is an element of truth in every idea that lasts long enough to be called corny. Irving Berlin 96 The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Winston Churchill 97 Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less. Marie Curie 98 No problem can withstand the assault of sustained thinking. Voltaire 99 To be angry is to revenge the faults of others on ourselves. Alexander Pope 100 Knowledge is proud that he has learnt so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper

101 Mistakes are the portals of discovery. James Joyce 102 What does not destroy me, makes me stronger. Frederick Nietzsche 103 Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong, productive plant. Stephen Sigmund 104 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. John Steinbeck 105 Opinions have caused more ills than the plague and earthquakes on this little globe of ours. Voltaire 106 Books give wisdom where none was before. But where some is, their reading makes it more. John Harington 107 Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. Thomas Jefferson 108 Man can embody truth but he cannot know it. W.B. Yeats 109 Four things support the world: the learning of the wise; the justice of the great; the prayers of the good; and the valour of the brave. Muhammad 110 Keep me away from the wisdom that does not cry, the philosophy that does not laugh, and the greatness that does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran

111 I have always thought that the actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts. John Locke 112 The ink of the scholar is more secret than the blood of the martyr. Muhammad 113 Humankind cannot bear very much reality. T.S. Eliot 114 What is tolerance? It is the consequence of humanity. We are all formed of frailty and error; let us pardon reciprocally each other's folly – that is the first law of nature. Voltaire 115 One's first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one's last, to come to terms with everything. George C. Lichtenberg 116 A prudent question is one half of wisdom. Frances beacon 117 Early to bed and early to rise, Makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise. Benjamin Franklin 118 Anger is a wind that blows out the lamp of the mind. Robert G. Ingersoll 119 Human beings are members of a whole In creation of one essence and soul. If you have no sympathy for human pain The name of human you cannot retain. Saadi 120 Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly. Robert F. Kennedy

121 Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart… Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens. Carl Jung 122 The more a man judges, the less he loves. Honoré de Balzac 123 There are no passengers on Spaceship Earth. We are all crew. Marshall McLuhan 124 The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind. Khalil Gibran 125 I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I have not. Lucille Ball 126 From the sublime to the ridiculous is but a step. Napoleon Bonaparte 127 A single conversation with a wise man is better than 10 years of study. Chinese proverb 128 Show respect to all people and grovel to none. When you arise in the morning, give thanks for the food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason for giving thanks, the fault lies only in yourself. Abuse no one and nothing, for abuse turns the wise ones to fools and robs the spirit of its vision. Tecumseh 129 Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than your own. Aesop 130 Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. That is another paradox; what is soft is strong. Lao Tzu

131 A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. Francis Bacon 132 He who lives without folly isn't as reasonable as he thinks. Francois de la Rochefoucauld 133 The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom; For we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough. William Blake 134 Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein 135 He's a fool who cannot conceal his wisdom. Benjamin Franklin 136 All human wisdom is summed up in two words: wait, and hope. Alexandre Dumas 137 Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix 138 Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is to you. Ralph Waldo Emerson 139 As I slowly grow wise, I briskly grow cautious. Mark Twain 140 Science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov

141 Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot call with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned. Buddha 142 Wisdom is founded on memory; happiness on forgetfulness. Mason Cooley 143 After wisdom comes wit. Evan Esar 144 Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust. Karl Kraus 145 It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann 146 Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Charles Caleb Colton 147 Once all struggle is grasped, miracles are possible. Mao Tse Tung 148 To learn, moderation is the essence of sound sense and real wisdom. Jacques-Bénigne Bossuet 149 The bird of wisdom flies low, seeks her food under hedges; The eagle himself would be starved if he always soared aloft and against the Sun. Walter Savage Landor 150 If you want to make peace with your enemy, you have to work with your enemy. Then he becomes your partner. Nelson Mandela

151 It requires a very unusual mind to undertake the analysis of the obvious. Alfred North Whitehead 152 The first sign of love is the last of wisdom. Antoine Bret 153 Every man feels instinctively that all the beautiful scent to the world way less than a single lovely action. James Lowell 154 ’Tis an old maxim in the schools That flattery’s the food of fools Yet now and then your men of wit Will the condescend to take a bit Jonathan Swift 155 When a man has not a good reason for doing a thing, has one good reason for letting it alone. Sir Walter Scott 156 Men's mean task is to give birth to himself. Erich Fromm 157 A mountain is composed of tiny grains of Earth. The ocean is made up of tiny drops of water. Even so,life is but an endless series of little details, actions, speeches, and thoughts. And the consequences, good or bad, of even the least of them, are far-reaching. Sivananda 158 There is a route from the eye to the heart that does not go through the intellect. G.K. Chesterton 159 The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. Edward Young 160 Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship. Buddha