Turn your wounds into wisdom.

A day of worry is more exhausting than a week of work.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.

Appearances are often deceiving.

Whatever position I occupied, it was the result of colleagues - of my comrades in the movement - who had decided in their wisdom to use me for the purpose of focusing the attention of the country and the international community on me.

Through consciousness, our minds have the power to change our planet and ourselves. It is time we heed the wisdom of the ancient indigenous people and channel our consciousness and spirit to tend the garden and not destroy it.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

It isn't what you do, but how you do it.

If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.

Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.

Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the furthest thing from it. Because cynics don't learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness: a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say 'no.' But saying 'yes' begins things. Saying 'yes' is how things grow.

The opinion which other people have of you is their problem, not yours.

Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

Each of us finds his unique vehicle for sharing with others his bit of wisdom.

Make it your habit not to be critical about small things.

The United Nations' founders understood that decisions affecting war and peace should happen only by consensus, and with America's consent, the veto by Security Council permanent members was enshrined in the United Nations Charter. The profound wisdom of this has underpinned the stability of international relations for decades.

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.

Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Champions invariably have fervent philosophical beliefs. Philosophy, in its simplest terms, means 'the love of wisdom.'

Gray hairs are signs of wisdom if you hold your tongue, speak and they are but hairs, as in the young.

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

As you walk in God's divine wisdom, you will surely begin to see a greater measure of victory and good success in your life.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

No one wants advice - only corroboration.

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

The soul's joy lies in doing.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

It is astonishing what force, purity, and wisdom it requires for a human being to keep clear of falsehoods.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

'Star Trek' was an attempt to say humanity will reach maturity and wisdom on the day that it begins not just to tolerate but take a special delight in differences in ideas and differences in lifeforms.

Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

War involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end; it has but one thing certain, and that is to increase taxes.

He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.

It's not the having, it's the getting.

I am deeply impressed with the gravity and wisdom with which most federal judges approach the responsibility of sentencing. It is a difficult, soul-searching task at best.

In an era in which war and terrorism - at home and abroad - are often based on racial, religious and ethnic differences, rediscovering the wisdom of love and compassion may help us increase our survival at a time when an increasingly divided country and world so badly need it.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.