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A wise man first thinks and then speaks and a fool speaks first and then thinks.
Sep 10, 2025
I didn't get where I am today by worryin' about how I'd feel tomorrow.
Take every opportunity that comes your way. You should never, never see an opportunity in the eye and pass by. Never!
But there's wisdom in women, of more than they have known, And thoughts go blowing through them, are wiser than their own.
We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
Perhaps wisdom is simply a matter of waiting, and healing a question of time. And anything good you've ever been given is yours forever.
Wonder is the beginning of wisdom in learning from books as well as from nature.
Wisdom is infused into every form.
Body cannot teach wisdom; God only.
The wisest among us is a fool in some things.
Some people are more nice than wise.
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
Our integrity is never worth so much as when we have parted with our all to keep it.
Justice without wisdom is impossible.
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Nothing is hidden that will not be made known; nothing is secret that will not come to light.
It's a recession when your neighbor loses his job; it's a depression when you lose yours.
I request that they may be considered in confidence, until the members of Congress are fully possessed of their contents, and shall have had opportunity to deliberate on the consequences of their publication; after which time, I submit them to your wisdom.
He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
Values are like fingerprints. Nobody's are the same, but you leave 'em all over everything you do
If fifty million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.
There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.
I spent thirty years learning manners, and I spent twenty years learning knowledge.
You will make some mistakes but, if you learn from those mistakes, those mistakes will become wisdom and wisdom is essential to becoming wealthy.
Man is born only as a potential. He can become a thorn for himself and for others, he can also become a flower for himself and for others.
When you fish for love, bait with your heart, not your brain.
We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.
If you are willing to look at another person's behavior toward you as a reflection of the state of their relationship with themselves rather than a statement about your value as a person. then you will, over a period of time, cease to react at all.
If you realized how powerful your thoughts are, you would never think a negative thought.
While people are often content to criticize and blame others for what goes wrong, surely we should at least attempt to put forward constructive ideas. One thing is for certain: given human beings' love of truth, justice, peace, and freedom, creating a better, more compassionate world is a genuine possibility. The potential is there.
Man who is created alone should be aware that he will also die alone. Yet during his life, he lives almost addicted to possessions... the only assets one can take with him when one dies is one's belief or disbelief
The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things because they don't look for recognition. Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions. They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.
Your Self, Aware Presence, knows no resistance to any appearance and, as such, is happiness itself; like the empty space of a room it cannot be disturbed and is, therefore, peace itself; like this page, it is intimately one with whatever appears on it and is thus love itself; and like water that is not affected by the shape of a wave, it is pure freedom. Causeless joy, imperturbable peace, love that knows no opposite and freedom at the heart of all experience....this is your ever-present nature under all circumstances.
When you are offended at any man's fault, turn to yourself and study your own failings. Then you will forget your anger.
The harder I work the more I live.
Loneliness, when accepted, becomes a gift that will lead us to find a purpose in life.
When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
Nowhere is wisdom more necessary than in the guidance of charitable impulses. Meaning well is only half our duty; Thinking right is the other, and equally important, half.
Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
When the student is ready the teacher will appear.
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.