Action speaks louder than words but not nearly as often.
- Mark Twain


An eye for eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish.
- Albert Einstein


Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.
- Thomas Jefferson


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.
- Confucius


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen.
- Albert Einstein


Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
- Albert Einstein


Familiarity breeds contempt - and children.
- Mark Twain


Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
- Abraham Lincoln


Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices, but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence and fulfills the duty to express the results of his thought in clear form.
- Albert Einstein


He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
- Ben Franklin


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.
- Socrates


I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
- Abraham Lincoln


I do not want to foresee the future. I am concerned with taking care of the present. God has given me no control over the moment following.
- Mahatma Gandhi


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


If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.
- Albert Einstein


If you shoot for the stars and hit the moon, it's OK. But you've got to shoot for something. A lot of people don't even shoot.
- Confucius


If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
- Barack Obama
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It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
- Ben Franklin


It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
- Mahatma Gandhi


It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog.
- Mark Twain


Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.
- Ben Franklin


Look at the means which a man employs, consider his motives, observe his pleasures. A man simply cannot conceal himself!
- Confucius


Nearly everything you do is of no importance, but it is important that you do it.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Never met a wiseman if so it's a woman!
- Kurt Cobain


Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
- Albert Einstein


Only the wisest and stupidest of men never change.
- Confucius


Prayer is not an old woman's idle amusement. Properly understood and applied, it is the most potent instrument of action.
- Mahatma Gandhi


Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'.
- John McCain


Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.
- George Washington


Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln


The doors of wisdom are never shut.
- Ben Franklin


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Ben Franklin


The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
- Ben Franklin


The important thing is not to stop questioning.
- Albert Einstein


The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
- Albert Einstein


The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
- Mark Twain


The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them.
- Albert Einstein


The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
- Abraham Lincoln


They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
- Ronald Reagan


Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered - either by themselves or by others.
- Mark Twain


To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
- Abraham Lincoln


True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
- Socrates


When in doubt, don't.
- Ben Franklin


When you look at yourself from a universal standpoint, something inside always reminds or informs you that there are bigger and better things to worry about.
- Albert Einstein


Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
- Ben Franklin


Wisdom begins in wonder.
- Socrates


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


Wise men don't need advice. Fools won't take it.
- Ben Franklin


You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves.
- Abraham Lincoln


You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.
- Abraham Lincoln