It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what’s left?
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Wisdom begins in wonder.
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Suffering is one of life’s great teachers.
Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Never let your head hang down. Never give up and sit down and grieve. Find another way. And don’t pray when it rains if you don’t pray when the sun shines.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Don’t taunt the alligator until after you’ve crossed the creek.
If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration.
Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.
Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.
There are many ways of going forward, but only one way of standing still.
If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being.
If you want to go east, don’t go west.
