"Perspective is worth 80 IQ points."
"Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think."
"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."
"Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it."
"Always keep an open mind and a compassionate heart."
"As you walk down the fairway of life you must smell the roses, for you only get to play one round."
"Be happy. It's one way of being wise."
"Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own."
"Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone."
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest."
"Cleverness is not wisdom."
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings."
"Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom."
"Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom."
"Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment."
"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."
"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
"Don't follow any advice, no matter how good, until you feel as deeply in your spirit as you think in your mind that the counsel is wise."
"Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek."
"Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit."
"Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you."
"Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action."
"From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own."
"Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world."
"Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it."
"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."
"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."
"He who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass."
"Honesty is the best policy."
"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."
