Life can bring much pain. There are many ways to deal with this pain. Choose wisely.

Tis better for thee to be wise and not seem so, than to seem wise and not be so: Yet Men, for the most Part, desire and endeavor the contrary

Be wise in time. What youth sows, old age must reap….Sow to yourself rather in righteousness: break up your fallow ground, sow not among thorns.

In my day job, I worry non-stop about making wise investments for long-term gains.

A wise and good man will turn examples of all sorts to his own advantage. The good he will make his patterns, and strive to equal or excel them. The bad he will by all means avoid.

Every writer is a storyteller, but not every storyteller is a writer

The idea of hereditary legislators is as inconsistent as that of hereditary judges, or hereditary juries; and as absurd as an hereditary mathematician, or an hereditary wise man; and as ridiculous as an hereditary poet-laureate.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.

Cleverness that the French adore and always mistake for wisdom

Knowledge acquired outdoors always seems to have a greater, hardier wisdom than the stuff you find at a desk on a computer

Fools make researches and wise men exploit them.

Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Words are the counters of wise men, and the money of fools.

Fools call wise men fools. A wise man never calls any man a fool.

Intelligence alone is not nearly enough when it comes to acting wisely.

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

If you can wait and not be tired of waiting, or being lied about, don’t deal in lies. Or being hated, don’t give way to hating, and yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. Music is THE BEST

Mo’Nique is so full of love. I’ve been describing her as the tree in ‘Pocahontas.’ She’s so wise and loving. She is just everything.

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool

An ignorant person is inclined to blame others for his own misfortune. To blame oneself is proof of progress. But the wise man never has to blame another or himself.

Wisdom disguises our wounds; it teaches us how to bleed in secret.

When a youth was giving himself airs in the Theatre and saying, ‘I am wise, for I have conversed with many wise men,’ Epictetus replied, ‘I too have conversed with many rich men, yet I am not rich!’.

Do not try to seem wise to others.

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Children need the wisdom of their elders; the aging need the encouragement of a child’s exuberance.

And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.

If things were to be done twice, all would be wise.

They must often change who would remain constant in happiness and wisdom.

He Who Knows And Knows That He Knows Is A Wise Man – Follow Him; He Who Knows Not And Knows Not That He Knows Not Is A Fool – Shun Him

A common man marvels at uncommon things. A wise man marvels at the commonplace.

True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their proper name.

Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.

If you are not having fun you are doing something wrong.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

For the wise man, every day is a festival.

I think pressure’s healthy, and very few can handle it.

The wise are wise only because they love. And the foolish are foolish only because they think they can understand love.

The gospel is preached in the ears of all men; it only comes with power to some. The power that is in the gospel does not lie in the eloquence of the preacher otherwise men would be converters of souls. Nor does it lie in the preacher’s learning; otherwise it could consists of the wisdom of men.

Have you no wish for others to be saved? Then you’re not saved yourself, be sure of that!

You won’t find God at the Seminary and you won’t find wisdom in the halls of intellectualism.

The stupid speak of the past, the wise of the present, and fools of the future.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Take calculated risks. That is quite different from being rash.

But this does not detract from the wisdom of his faith in the people and his constant insistence that they be left to manage their own affairs.

Some people are suffering from lack of work, some from lack of water, many more from lack of wisdom

Learned we may be with another man’s learning: we can only be wise with wisdom of our own.

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise.

No man can be wise on an empty stomach.

Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.

Drop by drop is the water pot filled. Likewise, the wise man, gathering it little by little, fills himself with good.

Even death is not to be feared by one who has lived wisely.

A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you, correct a wise man and he will appreciate you.

Full wise is he that can himself know.

A wise man can always be found alone. A weak man can always be found in crowd.

If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst.

And what has been hidden from the wise and the prudent has been revealed in the mouth of the toddlers

The beauty of love. The love of beauty. The greener you are, the wiser you will be

Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.

I was wise enough never to grow up, while fooling people into believing I had.

You can never be wise and be in love at the same time.

The wise are unaffected either by death or life. These are but faces of the same coin.

Oh, come with old Khayyam, and leave the Wise To talk; one thing is certain, that Life flies; One thing is certain, and the Rest is Lies; The Flower that once has blown for ever dies.

I would say I grew without a doubt. My whole energy in life – as an artist and as a person – has definitely got me smarter and wiser.

There are people who are wise enough and motivated enough to change their lives and live their dreams, and then there are those who need a kick in the pants to change their ways.

People inspire you, or they drain you. Pick them wisely.

Fools make feasts and wise men eat them.

Life’s biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.