Quotes and sayings about Wiseness

"Any fool can know. The point is to understand"

"Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe"

"If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough"

"Better to understand a little than to misunderstand a lot"

"Anything worth having is worth working for"

"The richest man is not he who has the most, but he who needs the least"

"Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use"

"Rather than waste time and energy worrying, use that time and energy to constructively deal with whatever’s causing the worry"

"Work like you don’t need money, love like you’ve never been hurt, and dance like no one’s watching"

"If you can't be right, be wrong as load as you can"

"When you come right down to it all you have is yourself"

"Its smart to know the rules so you can break them"

"Everything is always created twice, first in the mind and then in reality"

"Everything will be okay in the end. If it’s not okay, it’s not the end"

"If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect"

"Don’t ever wrestle with a pig. You’ll both get dirty, but the pig will enjoy it"

"Age is like the newest version of a software — it has a bunch of great new features but you lost all the cool features the original version had."

"As knowledge increases, wonder deepens"

"By the time a man realizes that maybe his father was right, he usually has a son who thinks he’s wrong"

"We can only change the world by changing men"

"I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand"

"This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness"

"Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it"

"One original thought is worth a thousand mindless quotings"

"How little we know of what there is to know"

"Doubt is the beginning, not the end, of wisdom"

"When you can’t change the direction of the wind - adjust you sails"

"Find a job you like and you add five days to every week"

"Deep experience is never peaceful"

"The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing"

"My riches consist not in the extent of my possessions but in the fewness of my wants"

"Children have never been very good at listening to their elders, but they have never failed to imitate them"

"I will pay more for the ability to deal with people before any other ability under the sun"

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable"

"A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle"

"It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves"

"The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth"

"To attain knowledge add something everyday, to attain wisdom remove something everyday"

"He who known others is wise. He who knows himself is enlightened"

"Be Content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you"

"When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean"

"Reason and action are congeneric and homogenous, two aspects of the same phenomenon"

"Having been poor is no shame, but being ashamed of it, is"

"If things seem under control, you’re just not going fast enough"

"All generalizations are false including this one"

"Do what you love and the money will follow"

"Limits, like fears, are often just an illusion"

"You don’t stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing"

"Every adversity, every failure, every heartache carries with it the seed on an equal or greater benefit"

"The only muscle that you’ve got is in between your ears"

"Both fortune and love befriend the bold"

"When you don’t get what you want, you suffer. If you get it, you suffer too since you can’t hold on to it forever"

"A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers"

"The beginning is the most important part of the work"

"Philosophy begins in wonder"

"The wisest have the most authority"

"Home is where the hear is"

"The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work"

"You bring about what you think about. To have great days, expect great days. It's Easy"

"Have no fear of perfection you will never reach it"

"The most important thing is to find out what is the most important thing"

"Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of"

"The beginning of wisdom, is the definition of terms"

"The only true wisdom is knowing that you know nothing"

"By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher"

"Truth can be stated in a thousand different ways, yet each one can be true"

"We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think"

"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom"

"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves"

"I find that the harder I work, the more luck I seem to have"

"If you keep on doing what you’ve always done, you’ll keep on getting what you’ve always got"

"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so"

"If your mind isn’t clouded by unnecessary things, then this is the best season of your life"