Wise Moves

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

Aphorism: Predigested wisdom. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

It is wisdom to believe the heart. - George Santayana

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. - Scottish Proverb

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

A wise traveler never despises his own country. - Carlo Goldoni

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

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

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

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

Substance is not enough, accident is also required. - Greek Proverb

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. - Frederick Schiller

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

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

Giving never happens by accident. It's always intentional. - Amy Grant

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

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

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

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

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

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. - Henry Ford

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

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

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

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

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

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

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

Are you a man with a conscience, or just a shark who will die when you stop moving forward? - Roderick Vincent

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. - Chinese Proverb

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

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

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

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed. - Unknown

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

Say no to the things that keep you on a certain level and say yes to the things that will help you keep moving on. - Brian Honigman

My idea is to make moves to bring chess back to the world's map, to make it part of the world's geography again. - Anatoly Karpov

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

God moves in a mysterious way
His wonders to perform;
He plants His footsteps in the sea
And rides upon the storm. - William Cowper

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

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

If the "black box" flight recorder is never damaged during a plane crash, why isn't the whole airplane made out of that stuff? - George Carlin

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