Monday, 19 September 2011

WisDom Quotes and Sayings (5)

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.  ~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
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Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.  ~Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.  ~Sophocles
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If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.  ~Lemuel K. Washburn, Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays, 1911
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Change brings freshness.
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The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
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He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today. - Tryon Edwards 
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I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth. - Umberto Eco 
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“A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren't we like that wise old bird?”
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool..  ~William Shakespeare, As You Like It
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One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.  ~Edward C. Steadman
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The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.  ~William James
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It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.  ~François Duc de La Rochefoucauld 
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One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg C. Lichtenberg 
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We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles 
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The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from the old ones. -John Maynard Kynes 
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“Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.” -David Starr Jordan quotes
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“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”-Gian Carlo Menotti quotes
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“We must become the change we want to see.”-Mahatma Gandhi quotes
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No one can give you better advice than yourself. - Cicero
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What you think of yourself is much more important than what others think of you. - Seneca
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Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.  ~Carrie Latet
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There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise.  ~Robert Brault, 
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