Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

You know, my Grandpop Finnegan used to have an expression: he used to say, ‚Joey, the guy in Olyphant’s out of work, it’s an economic slowdown. When your brother-in-law’s out of work, it’s a recession. When you’re out of work, it’s a depression.‘

I think I’ve got wiser.

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance.

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.

A man is the whole encyclopedia of facts.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

Create a definite plan for carrying out your desire and begin at once, whether you ready or not, to put this plan into action.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

To know anything well involves a profound sensation of ignorance.

If you make listening and observation your occupation you will gain much more than you can by talk.

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

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

He who knows, does not speak. He who speaks, does not know.

Words may show a man’s wit but actions his meaning.

I learned a great many years ago that in a fight between husband and wife, a third party should never get between the woman’s skillet and the man’s ax-helve.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Beauty and folly are old companions.

No one can pass through life, any more than he can pass through a bit of country, without leaving tracks behind, and those tracks may often be helpful to those coming after him in finding their way.

Whatever you cannot understand, you cannot possess.

Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession.

A witty saying proves nothing.

Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

He who does not trust enough, Will not be trusted.

Without freedom of thought, there can be no such thing as wisdom – and no such thing as public liberty without freedom of speech.

To suffer the penalty of too much haste, which is too little speed.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life – knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living from the dead.

Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don’t know.

Old age is just a record of one’s whole life.

Speak the truth, do not yield to anger; give, if thou art asked for little; by these three steps thou wilt go near the gods.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Everything in excess is opposed to nature.

Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason.

Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.

Live to learn, and you will really learn to live.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

I think, team first. It allows me to succeed, it allows my team to succeed.

Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you.

Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it.

No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of spring.

Forty to 60 I would say is your prime. That’s when you know the most, you’ve seen the most, you understand the most, and you still have some physical energy.

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

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.

We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.

Impart as much as you can of your spiritual being to those who are on the road with you, and accept as something precious what comes back to you from them.

I think there is only one quality worse than hardness of heart and that is softness of head.

We ought to fly away from earth to heaven as quickly as we can; and to fly away is to become like God, as far as this is possible; and to become like him is to become holy, just, and wise.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

Our treasure lies in the beehive of our knowledge. We are perpetually on the way thither, being by nature winged insects and honey gatherers of the mind.

Step with care and great tact, and remember that Life’s a Great Balancing Act.

Old age: the crown of life, our play’s last act.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.