Wise Moves

Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Never insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Tennyson

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

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

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. - Mary Roach

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

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

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

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. - Marcus Aurelius

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

After all, it's only moving shadows on a silver screen. - Richard Fleischer

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

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

A wise man does not waste so good a commodity as lying for naught. - Mark Twain

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. - George Fisher

The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. - Earl Nightingale

Keep moving if you love life, and keep your troubles well behind you. - John McCain

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Wisdom is knowing which road is the right one; integrity is taking it. - Unknown

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

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

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

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

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

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

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

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

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quoatations. - Benjamin Disraeli

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. - Unknown

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

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action. - Henry Miller

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

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis

I can't stop moving. I'm like this weird insect. I can't sit still in real life. - Robin Wright

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

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Ferris Bueller

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Eleanor Roosevelt

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

I don't understand American football at all. It looks like all-in wrestling with crash helmets. - Sting

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

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

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. - E W Howe

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

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

Success seems to be connected with action. Successful people keep moving. They make mistakes but don't quit. - Conrad Hilton

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

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

You are responsible for your life. You can't keep blaming somebody else for your dysfunction. Life is really about moving on. - Oprah Winfrey

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing. - William James

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon