"It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important."
"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."
"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."
"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."
"It is better to risk starving to death then surrender. If you give up on your dreams, what's left?"
"It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone."
"It is impossible to love and to be wise."
"It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance."
"It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them."
"It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary."
"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
"It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously."
"It's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life."
"It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see."
"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."
"Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken."
"Man is only great when he acts from passion."
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom."
"Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them."
"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."
"Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you."
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity."
"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
"No man was ever wise by chance."
"Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself."
"Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal."
"Of prosperity mortals can never have enough."
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."
"People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy."
