Wise Sayings
Here you will find a collection of wise sayings. If you want an inspirational saying that is appropriate to help, encourage, or clarify some issues of life, a quote about wise may just be what you need. Some people would suggest that to be wise means to be older; sometimes this is not the case for those who know how to appreciate their own strengths and weaknesses and minimize the negatives and build on the positives. To be wise also does not mean that you know everything, or think you do. The wiser is one who understands that learning is a continuous activity and that learning never ends thus one can never know it all anyway.Steven D. Woodhull
When I was young, I figured I knew just about everything. It's a good thing I learned what I didn't know before it was too late.
Byron Pulsifer
Good for the body is the work of the body, and good for the soul is the work of the soul, and good for either is the work of the other.
Henry David Thoreau
Anyone can carry his burden, however hard, until nightfall. Anyone can do his work, however hard, for one day. Anyone can live sweetly, patiently, lovingly, purely, till the sun goes down. And this is all life really means.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.
Victor Hugo
I would not waste my life in friction when it could be turned into momentum.
Frances Willard
Excess on occasion is exhilirating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
W. Somerset Maugham
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
Benjamin Franklin
An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere. The pessimist sees only the red light. But the truly wise person is color blind.
Dr. Albert Schweitzer
You don't have to be wrong to make the wrong choice.
Byron Pulsifer
If you play it safe in life you've decided that you don't want to grow any more.
Shirley Mount Hufstedler
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Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.
Napolean Hill
There are many questions which fools can ask that wise men cannot answer.
George Polya
In aging, one becomes more foolish and more wise.
Francois, Duc de La Rochefoucauld
Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital.... The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket.
Andrew Carnegie
Wise men put their trust in ideas and not in circumstances.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see.
Sir Winston Churchill
A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.
Chinese Proverb
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.
Lao-Tzu