--- Herb Caen
"A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is
no longer indespensable."
--- Richard E. Byrd
"A man should never be ashamed to own he has been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words that he is wiser today than he was yesterday."
--- Alexander Pope
"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."
--- Oliver Wendell Holmes
"A problem understood is half solved."
--- Stephen R. Covey
"A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books."
--- Chinese Proverb
"A vacant mind invites dangerous inmates."
--- Nicholas Hilliard
"A wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future."
--- Herbert Spencer
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart."
--- Johnathan Swift
"Adversity doesn't build character, it reveals it."
--- Author Unknwn
"An open mind is all very well in its way, but it ought not to be so open that there is no keeping anything in or out of it."
--- Samuel Butler
"Associate with men of judgement, for judgement is found in conversation, and we make another man's judgment ours by frequenting his company."
--- Thomas Fuller
"Better to light a candle than curse the darkness."
--- Chinese Proverb
"Big minds talk about ideas
Medium minds talk about events
Small minds talk about people."
--- Author Unknown
Brisk talkers are usually slow thinkers."
--- Jonathan Swift
"Colors fade, temples crumble, empires fall, but wise words endure."
--- Thorndike
"Do the things you know, and you shall learn the things you need to know."
--- George Macdonald
"Don�t count your chickens before they hatch."
--- American Proverb
"Don't wait until your body falls apart to get your head together."
--- Author Unknown
"Everybody ain't as edacated as they think they is."
--- Adolph County
"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him."
--- Aldous Huxley
"Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it."
--- George Carlin
"He is happy in his wisdom who has learned at another's expense."
--- Platus
"He that will not reason is a bigot,
He that cannot reason is a fool,
He that dares not reason is a slave."
--- William Drummond
"He who knows little quickly tells it."
--- Italian Proverb
"He whom prosperity humbles, and adversity strengthens, is the true hero."
--- Josh Billings
"I cannot escape the interpretation that meekness implies a spirit of gratitude... this is the beginning of wisdom."
--- Gordon B Hinkley
"I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging the future but by the past."
--- Patrick Henry
"I was strongest when I laughed at my weakness."
--- Elmer Diktonius
"If you aim at nothing, you'll hit it every time."
--- Author Unknown
"If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"
--- American Proverb
"It is better to live well than to live long, but those who live long live better longer."
--- Shane Sorenson Pond
"It takes a clever man to turn cynic
and a wise man to be clever enough not to."
--- Fannie Hurst
Twas a wise old owl who sat on an oak,
The more he sat the less he spoke,
The less he spoke the more he heard,
Oh, why can't we be like that wise old bird.
--- Author Unknown
"Learn from the mistakes of others --
you can't live long enough to make them all yourself."
--- Martin Vanbee
"Let him that move the world first move himself."
--- Socrates
"Little is done where many command."
--- Dutch Proverb
"Man's greatest greatness lies in his power of thought."
--- Mortumer Alder
"Many recieve [good] advice, only the wise profit from it."
--- Syrus
"Never leave �till tomorrow what you can do today."--- Benjamin Franklin
"None is so perfect that he does not need at times the advice of others."
--- BaltasarGracian
"None of us is as good as all of us."
--- Author Unknown
"One pound of learning requires ten pounds of common sense to apply it."
--- Persian Proverb
"One who fears failure limits his activities. Failure is only the opportunity more intelligently to begin again."
--- Henry Ford
"Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom."
--- Frank R. Barry
"Personally I'm always ready to learn, although I do not always like being taught."
--- Sir Winston Churchill
"Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who read too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking."
--- Albert Einstein
"Second thoughts are ever wiser."
--- Euripides
"[See] that the things that matter most � are not at the mercy of things that matter least."
--- A. Theodore Tuttle
"Speak not in the ears of a fool: for he will despise the wisdom of thy words."--- A. Solomon, Bible, Proverbs 23:9
"Spiritual maturity comes from faith growing to meet life's challenges
or being prepared to drink from it if not drinking from the 'bitter cup'
without becoming bitter."
--- President Jardine
Salt Lake University Stake
"The course of our lives is not determined by great awesome decisions. Our direction is set by the little day-to-day choices which chart the track on which we run."
--- Gordon B. Hinkley
"The man who lives by himself and for himself is apt to be corrupted by the company he keeps."
--- J. Parkhurst
"The more I learn the more I see that I have yet to learn."
--- Author Unknown
"The study of the doctrines of the gospel will improve behavior quicker than a study of behavior will improve behavior."
--- Boyd K. Packer
"The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning,
and whosoever can open up the way for another,
ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind."
--- David Hume
"The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools."
--- Herbert Spencer
"The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense."
--- William Ralph Inge
"The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself."
--- Plato
The wise person possesses humility. He knows that his small island of knowledge is surrounded by a vast sea of the unknown."
--- Harold C. Chase
"There are men of talent, of thought, of reflection, and knowledge in all cunning mechanism; they are expert in that though they do not know from whence they receive thier intelligence. The Spirit of the Lord ... [is] offering them knowledge and intelligence; consequently, it reveals unto them, instructs them, teaches them and guides them even in the way they like to travel. Men know how to construct railroads and all manner of machinery; they understand cunning workmanship, etc.; but that is all revealed to them by the Spirit of the Lord, though they know it not."
--- Brigham Young
"There is no darkness -- but ignorance."
--- William Shakespear
"There is no such thing as Inevitable war.
If war comes, it will be from failure of human wisdom."
--- Bonar Law
"Thinking without constructive action becomes a disease."
--- Henry Ford
"Those who strive to do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing in order to escape criticism, even they are criticized."
--- Author Unknown
"To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom."
--- Ashley Montagu
"To know is not to be wise.... There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool."
--- Spurgeon
"Too often we are involved in the thick of thin things."
--- Author Unknown (quoted by Ashley Montague, 1971)
"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
--- Abraham Lincoln
"You can't make a fact of an opinion by raising your voice."
--- American Proverb
"Youth, like anvils, are not effectively molded by blows of the advice hammer without an abundance of warmth."
--- Shane S. Pond
"What we do not understand we have no right to judge."
--- Henri Frederic Amiel
"What you keep by you, you may change and mend;
but words, once spoken, can never be recalled."
--- Wentworth Roscommon
"When I'm getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I'm going to say -- and two-thirds thinking about him and what he's going to say."
--- Abraham Lincoln
"When you blame others, you give up your power to change."
--- Dr. Robert Anthony
"Where wisdom is called for, force is of little use."
--- Herodotus
"Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech."
--- Evangel
"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body."
--- Francois La Rochefoucauld
"Words must be weighed, not counted."
--- Polish Proverb
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