The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

The older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.

Lord, bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can, and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!

Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.