WISDOM QUOTES
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If you realize you aren't so wise today as you thought you were
yesterday, you're wiser today. -Olin Miller

You've got to do your own growing, no matter how tall your grandfather
was. -Irish proverb

What time hath scanted men in hair, he hath given them in wit.
-William Shakespeare

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that
thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks
himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool. 
-Charles Caleb Colton

That which you cannot give away, you do not possess. It possesses you.
-Ivern Ball

I got a fortune cookie that said, "To remember is to understand." I
have never forgotten it. A good judge remembers what it was  like to
be a lawyer. A good editor remembers being a writer. A good parent
remembers what it was like to be a child. -Anna Quindlen

If you are never scared, embarrassed or hurt, it means you never take
chances. -Julia Soul

Nobody knows the age of the human race, but everybody agrees that it
is old enough to know better.

Men honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not
realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it. -Chuang-Tse

The Largest Room in the World is the Room for Improvement.

Words are like diamonds. Polish them too much, and all you get are
pebbles. -Bryce Courtenay

Life is like a landscape. You live in the midst of it, but can
describe it only from the vantage point of distance.
-Charles A. Lindbergh

Be careful what you choose. You may get it. -Colin Powell

Don't let adverse facts stand in the way of a good decision.
-Colin Powell

You can't make someone else's choices. You shouldn't let someone else
make yours. -Colin Powell

You will find poetry nowhere unless you bring some with you.
-Joubert

The seagull sees farthest who flies highest.

There are no maps to where no one has gone before. -Kodak ad

Expecting the world to treat you fairly because you are a good person 
is a little like expecting a bull not to attack you because you are a
vegetarian. -Dennis Wholey 

Needing someone is like needing a parachute. If he isn't there the
first time you need him, chances are you won't be needing him again.
-Dilbert

Never argue with an idiot. They drag you down to their level.
-Dilbert

Mosquitos remind us that we are not as high up on the food chain as we
think. -Tom Wilson

To him that waits all things reveal themselves, provided that he has
the courage not to deny, in the darkness, what he has seen in the
light. -Coventry Patmore

Great minds must be ready not only to take opportunities, but to make
them. -C. C. Colton

If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant: if we did
not sometimes taste of adversity, prosperity would not be so welcome.
-Anne Bradstreet

Experience is not what happens to a man, it is what a man does with
what happens to him. -Aldous Huxley

Problems do not go away. They must be worked through or else they
remain, forever a barrier to the growth and development of the spirit.
-M. Scott Peck

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.
-Jackie Joyner-Kersee

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head
and hands. -Robert M. Pirsig

Always remember when you are on top of the world, that the earth
rotates every 24 hrs. -Steve G. Makris

No man is capable of self-improvement if he sees no other model but
himself. -Conrado I. Generoso

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will
ever regret. 

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it,
to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not and never
persist in trying to set people right.
-Hannah Whitall Smith

Time invested in improving ourselves cuts down on time wasted in
disapproving of others.  

Everyone has a right to be stupid. Some just abuse the privilege.

Good communication is as stimulating as black coffee, and just as hard
to sleep after. -Anne Morrow Lindbergh

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.
-Gilbert K. Chesterton

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. 
-Philip K. Dick

You can pretend to be serious; you can't pretend to be witty.
-Sacha Guitry

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and
say the opposite.  -Sam Levenson

Time is like the snowflake that on your finger lit. It disappeared
while you were thinking of what to do with it...

The real act of discovery is not in finding new lands, but in seeing
with new eyes. -Marcel Proust




The smallest good deed is better than the grandest good intention. 

Worry is like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do but it
doesn't get you anywhere.

Be careful of the words you say, to keep them soft & sweet.
You never know from day to day which ones wou'll have to eat. 

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought
in it.

Words hurt more than swords.

Don't bite off more than you can chew.

When the itch is inside the boot, scratching outside provides little
consolation. -Chinese proverb

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real
tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. -Plato

Originality is the art of concealing your sources. 

Advice is free: The right answer will cost plenty. 

Nothing's impossible for those who don't have to do it. 

The reward for a thing well done is to have done it.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

Traditional thinkers say, "If it isn't broken, don't fix it."
But breakthrough thinkers say, "Fix it before it breaks."
-Gerald Nadier

Many a man fails as an original thinker simply because his memory is
too good. -Friedrich Nietzsche

Often, our actions and assumptions continue long after the reasons for
them have passed. It's quite useful to regularly challenge those
assumptions and habits, to ask "why?". -Ralph Marston

It is not only for what we do that we are held responsible, but also
for what we do not do. -Moliere

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not
to give it. -Agatha Christie

Let us not look back in anger or forward in fear, but around in
awareness. -James Thurber

Experience is the hardest teacher because she gives the test first;
the lesson after.

May you have the hindsight to know where you've been, the foresight to
know where you're going and the insight to know when you're going too
far.

The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.
-Chinese Proverb

Good timber does not grow with ease. The stronger the wind the
stronger the trees. -Williard Marriott

Originality does not consist in saying what no one has ever said
before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself. -James Stephens

Vision without action is a daydream. Action without vision is a
nightmare. -Japanese proverb

Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. -Helen Keller

He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes, but he who
never asks a question remains a fool forever. -Tom Connelly

You can't have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday
all the time. -Charles F. Kettering

No clever arrangement of bad eggs ever made a good omelet. 
-C. S. Lewis

If you think a weakness can be turned into a strength, I hate to tell
you this, but that's another weakness. -Jack Handey

A man who makes no mistakes - seldom makes anything.

The Almighty moves mountains but don't forget to bring your shovel.

Talking comes by nature, silence by wisdom.

Even a fool knows we can't reach the stars, but that doesn't stop the
wise from trying.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn
from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent
disinclination to do so. -Douglas Adams

Experience is often what you get when you were expecting something
else.

Normal is in the eye of the beholder. -Whoopi Goldberg

A conceited person never gets anywhere because he thinks he is already
there.

Never cut what can be untied.

If someone offers to furnish a sure test, ask what the test was which
made the sure test sure.