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We are wiser than we know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.
- Ludwig Boerne

I do not think much of a man who is
not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln

In those days he was wiser than he is now;
he used to frequently take my advice.
- Winston Churchill

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Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world
doesn't mean you are wiser
than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
- Edward R. Murrow

He who knows others is wise.
He who knows himself is enlightened.
- Lao Tzu

See no evil, Hear no evil, Speak no evil.
- Japanese pictorial maxim (the Three Wise Monkeys)

 

The wise man in the storm prays God,
not for safety from danger,
but for deliverance from fear.
It is the storm within which endangers him,
not the storm without.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Excellence is the result of
caring more than others think wise,
risking more than other's think safe,
dreaming more than others think practical,
and expecting more than others think possible.
- Anonymous

The wise man does not lay up his own treasures.
The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
- Lao Tzu

Everyone is wise, until he speaks.
- Irish proverb

I have always been regretting that
I was not as wise as the day I was born.
- Henry David Thoreau

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere,
while the pessimist sees only the red stoplight.
The truly wise person is colorblind.
- Albert Schweitzer

A wise one said, "We are most like God when we forgive."
It is easy for us to blame, but hard for us to forgive.
Yet that is what we are called upon to do -
to forgive everyone for everything.
And the reward?
In this life, the reward for forgiveness
is your own happiness.
Unconditional universal forgiveness is
the key to your own happiness.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

It is a wise father that knows his own child.
- William Shakespeare

Wise men put their trust in ideas
and not in circumstances
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Take risks: if you win, you will be happy;
if you lose, you will be wise.
- Anonymous

A wise man hears one word and understands two.
- Yiddish Proverb

All this worldly wisdom was once
the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
- Henry David Thoreau

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

Every day is a new beginning -
a day for a new plan and new action.
If today, in conscious awareness, you choose
the same plan as yesterday, you are wise.
If you choose a different plan, you are equally wise.
Whatever you choose, choose with intention.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

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

Many receive advice, only the wise profit from it.
- Publilius Syrus

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein

A wise man will make haste to forgive,
because he knows the true value of time,
and will not suffer it to pass away in unnecessary pain.
- Samuel Johnson

It is always wise to look ahead,
but difficult to look further than you can see.
- Winston Churchill

If you wish to succeed in life,
make perseverance your bosom friend,
experience your wise counselor,
caution your elder brother,
and hope your guardian genius.
- Joseph Addison

Thoughtful people seldom share exactly the same opinion -
the same point-of-view.
The wise ones understand that they know nothing -
for virtually none of our experience is truly factual -
and they graciously honor all other opinions.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question
than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
- Bruce Lee

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
- Naguib Mahfouz

Before beginning a Hunt, it is wise to ask someone
what you are looking for before you begin looking for it.
- A. A. Milne (Winnie-The-Pooh)

It is noted that a stopped clock is correct twice each day.
In a similar manner, a person who is unchanging appears wise occasionally.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The wise man looks into space,
and does not regard the small as too little,
nor the great as too much;
for he knows that there is no limit to dimensions.
- Lao Tzu

The wise man looks back into the past,
and does not grieve over what is far off,
nor rejoice over what is near;
for he knows that time is without end.
- Lao Tzu

It cannot be wisdom to assert the truth of one faith over another.
In our troubled world so full of contradictions,
the wise person makes justice his guide and learns from all.
- Akbar the Great (1542-1605)

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance;
the wise grows it under his feet.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer

I was wise enough to never grow up
while fooling most people into believing I had.
- Margaret Mead

The wise ones fashioned speech with their thought,
sifting it as grain is sifted through a sieve.
- The Buddha

The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man
are those of bearing and forbearing.
- Epictetus

Self-pity is our worst enemy
and if we yield to it,
we can never do anything wise in this world.
- Helen Keller

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love,
listens but doesn't believe,
and leaves before she is left.
- Marilyn Monroe

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures,
but the foolish to be a slave to them.
- Epictetus

I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing,
and that is that I know nothing.
- Socrates

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom.
It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest
might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Universal compassion is the only guarantee of morality.
- Arthur Schopenhauer

He who is contented is rich.
- Lao Tzu

What's done is done.
- William Shakespeare

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
- Rabindranath Tagore

Everything has beauty,
but not everyone sees it.
- Confucius

Silence is a source of great strength.
- Lao Tzu

He is richest who is content with the least,
for content is the wealth of nature.
- Socrates

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama

This above all, to thine own self be true.
- William Shakespeare

Always be a first-rate version of yourself,
instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.
- Judy Garland

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
- Lao Tzu

Happiness walks on busy feet.
- Kitte Turmell

Life's burdens are lighter when I laugh at myself.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

When It's Darkest, Men See the Stars.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Life is a reflection of intent.
Love reflects love.
Hate reflects hate.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The words of truth are always paradoxical.
- Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans,
and is not intent on arriving.
- Lao Tzu

Choose Inner Peace.
Nothing is worth losing your inner peace.
Take action as circumstances require,
but never surrender your inner peace.
Stop. Breathe deeply.
Close your eyes and breathe deeply again.
Then, and only then, take action -
from a peaceful heart.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Happiness cannot thrive within the prison of obligation
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

The Main Thing is to Keep
The Main Thing The Main Thing.
- Stephen Covey

I am a Passionate Observer of Life.
I See the events, feel the emotions,
and recognize the difference.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

I do not need anyone's permission to be my true self.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

What we think, we become.
All that we are arises with our thoughts.
With our thoughts, we make the world.
- The Buddha

If you aren't in the moment,
you are either looking forward to uncertainty,
or back to pain and regret.
- Jim Carrey


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