Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be.

If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.

The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

No party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well, you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President, I never will.

A ruffled mind makes a restless pillow.

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

And I love that even in the toughest moments, when we're all sweating it - when we're worried that the bill won't pass, and it seems like all is lost - Barack never lets himself get distracted by the chatter and the noise. Just like his grandmother, he just keeps getting up and moving forward... with patience and wisdom, and courage and grace.

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.

We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.

When you give yourself, you receive more than you give.

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

It is better to rust out than wear out.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

Remembering is painful, it's difficult, but it can be inspiring and it can give wisdom.

The Gross National Product measures neither our wit nor our courage, neither our wisdom nor our learning, neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country. It measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile, and it can tell us everything about America - except whether we are proud to be Americans.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Age does not bring you wisdom, age brings you wrinkles.

Singleness of purpose is one of the chief essentials for success in life, no matter what may be one's aim.

I believe that we are solely responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences of every deed, word, and thought throughout our lifetime.

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

I know that inner wisdom is more precious than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

The gateways to wisdom and learning are always open, and more and more I am choosing to walk through them. Barriers, blocks, obstacles, and problems are personal teachers giving me the opportunity to move out of the past and into the Totality of Possibilities.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

My mom calls me an older soul because, growing up, she taught me stuff real early. Now I spend most of my time chasing wisdom, chasing understanding.

It is like the seed put in the soil - the more one sows, the greater the harvest.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

What evolution tells us is that we are part of a grand, dynamic, and ever-changing fabric of life that covers our planet. Even to a person of faith, in fact especially to a person of faith, an understanding of the evolutionary process should only deepen their appreciation of the scope and wisdom of the creator's work.

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

When we looked at the life cycle in our 40s, we looked to old people for wisdom. At 80, though, we look at other 80-year-olds to see who got wise and who not. Lots of old people don't get wise, but you don't get wise unless you age.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Every journey that is successful has culs-de-sac and speed bumps. I carry a wisdom gene through my life through the good, the bad, and the ugly.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

All the great evils which men cause to each other because of certain intentions, desires, opinions, or religious principles, are likewise due to non-existence, because they originate in ignorance, which is absence of wisdom.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

When you get older, you learn certain life lessons. You apply that wisdom, and suddenly you say, 'Hey, I've got a new lease on this thing. So let's go.'

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

If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.