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Words of Wisdom /
Thoughts to Live By
Nature and wisdom never are at strife.
Plutarch
It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William James
The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.
Solomon Ibn Gabriol
Wisdom is better than gold or silver.
German Proverb
Years teach us more than books.
Berthold Auerbach
It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others.
Latin Proverb
The great lesson is that the sacred is in the ordinary, that it is to be found in one's daily life, in one's neighbors, friends and family, in one's backyard. - Abraham Maslow
woman in hammock in backyard
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy.
William Penn
The middle course is the best.
Cleobulus
The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control.
Pythagoras
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom.
Thomas Huxley
A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own.
Latin Proverb
Silence does not always mark wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Measure a thousand times and cut once.
Turkish Proverb
No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca
He has not learned the lesson of life who does not every day surmount a fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Learn to hold loosely all that is not eternal.
A. Maude Royden
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
By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself.
Menander
The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.
William Hazlitt
Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best.
John Tillotson
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shore line of wonder.
Ralph W. Sockman
The more a man knows, the more he forgives.
Catherine the Great
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Charles Dickens
One who understands much displays a greater simplicity of character than one who understands little.
Alexander Chase
How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!
Homer
The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid.
Confucius
sunshine on tree branches Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb
