“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.”
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“Wisdom I know is social. She seeks her fellows. But Beauty is jealous, and illy bears the presence of a rival.”
“Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.”
“Honesty is the best policy.”
“Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.”
“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”
“What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.”
“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.”
“Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.”
“Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.”
“In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.”
“What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.”
“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.”
“Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”
“Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.”
“I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.”
“To make no mistakes is not in the power of man but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.”
“A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination.”
“A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers.”
“Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.”
“Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.”
“The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.”
“So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.”
“In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People; like Government.”