Wise Moves

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

Never insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein

Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Tennyson

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

Name the greatest of all inventors. Accident. - Mark Twain

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

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

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

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

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

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

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it. - Albert Einstein

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

Moving among fragmentary ruins which lost their significance. - Stephen Spender

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

Even if you fall on your face, you're still moving forward. - Robert C. Gallagher

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn

If silence be good for the wise, how much the better for fools. - Talmud

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

Happiness is an accident of nature, a beautiful and flawless aberration. - Pat Conroy

Doubts are the ants in the pants of faith. They keep it awake and moving. - Frederick Buechner

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each hour as it goes by. - E S Bouton

It is strange how often a heart must be broken before the years can make it wise. - Sara Teasdale

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras

Moving doesn't change who you are. It only changes the view outside your window. - Rachel Hollis

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongue. - Old Testament

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

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

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Admiral Richard Byrd

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. - Steven Wright

The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth, and to have it found out by accident. - Charles Lamb

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce

Time isn't just a fleeting thing. It never moves forward without engraving its mark upon the heart. - Ravi Zacharias

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John S Mill

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Unknown

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

Forgiveness is a way of opening up the doors again and moving forward, whether it's a personal life or a national life. - Hillary Clinton

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want. - George Lucas

Style is that which indicates how the writer takes himself and what he is saying. It is the mind skating circles around itself as it moves forward. - Robert Frost

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou