Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below, then you will discover the wisdom of the Creator, in that He gave it a neck longer than its feet for this reason, that it might, as if lowering a sort of fishing line, procure the food hidden in the deep water.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Never give up, which is the lesson I learned from boxing. As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other; they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

It is impossible to love and to be wise.

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!

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.

Swim upstream. Go the other way. Ignore the conventional wisdom.

Since human wisdom cannot secure us from accidents, it is the greatest effort of reason to bear them well.

My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.

You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens.

Please all, and you will please none.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

But life is long. And it is the long run that balances the short flare of interest and passion.

When a thing is done, it's done. Don't look back. Look forward to your next objective.

Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek.

India is known for its sobriety and wisdom, balanced and sensible thinking. We need strong institutions and we need good governance in the country.

A mistake is simply another way of doing things.

No one who cooks, cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past, the advice and menus of cooks present, and the wisdom of cookbook writers.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.

Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'

The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe.

The philosophies of one age have become the absurdities of the next, and the foolishness of yesterday has become the wisdom of tomorrow.

With age comes common sense and wisdom.

No man was ever wise by chance.

The sweetest of all sounds is praise.

The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.

Nobility of spirit has more to do with simplicity than ostentation, wisdom rather than wealth, commitment rather than ambition.

Teach your children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

If I have brought any message today, it is this: Have the courage to have your wisdom regarded as stupidity. Be fools for Christ. And have the courage to suffer the contempt of the sophisticated world.

Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.

The world is a diverse place. Nobody has a monopoly on virtue or wisdom.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Slow and steady wins the race.

The wheel that squeaks the loudest is the one that gets the grease.

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.

To advise is not to compel.

If you want a thing done well, do it yourself.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.

A heart well prepared for adversity in bad times hopes, and in good times fears for a change in fortune.

If you set out to be liked, you would be prepared to compromise on anything at any time, and you would achieve nothing.