Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.
Perspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Mothers are supposed to listen and, afterward, to respond with some wisdom and perspective, but these things were not my mother's strong suit.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Tis but a part we see, and not a whole.
People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a...
Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.
Please all, and you will please none.
When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
