Wisdom Quotes

"He that can have patience can have what he will" "The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge." "Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit." "It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do." "We should love, not fall in love, because everything that falls gets broken" "Delay is preferable to error" "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers" "Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it" "Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it" "Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old" "The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks." "The best way to prepare for the future is to live as if there were none" "Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk" "When you talk, you are only repeating what you already know. But if you listen, you may learn something new" "Experience is what you got when you didn't get what you wanted" "A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool." "The better part of valor is discretion." "The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." "Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast." "There’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path"