Patience and Wisdom

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

As welcome as a skunk at a lawn party. - Proverb

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

Dogs that bark at a distance never bite. - Unknown

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. - Francis Bacon

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

Patience is a vital trait of the great athlete. - Unknown

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

Adopt the pace of nature. Her secret is patience. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The virtue lies in the struggle, not in the prize. - Richard Monckton Milnes

Flatterers looks like friends, as wolves like dogs. - George Chapman

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

Courage, the footstool of the Virtues, upon which they stand. - Robert Louis Stevenson

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. - Edward Abbey

I had rather hear my dog bark at a crow, than a man swear he loves me. - William Shakespeare

Have patience and endure: this unhappiness will one day be beneficial. - Ovid

Nothing of character is really permanent but virtue and personal worth. - Daniel Webster

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

One can never speak enough of the virtues, the dangers, the power of shared laughter. - Francoise Sagan

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. - Albert Einstein

The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg, not by smashing it. - Ellen Glasgow

In the realm of ideas everything depends on enthusiasm... in the real world all rests on perseverance. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Success in life is not a matter so much of talent or opportunity but of concentration and perseverance. - C.W. Wendte

Perseverance alone does not assure success. No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none. - I Ching

If you get to thinkin' you're a person of some influence, try orderin' somebody else's dog around. - Unknown

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

I still play hockey every now and then, and I still golf. But my biggest exercise is walking my big dog in the park every day. - Michael J. Fox

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings. The inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries. - Winston Churchill