It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.
Arthur Conan Doyle
He who knows all the answers has not been asked all the questions.
Confucius
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
David Starr Jordan
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.
Kahlil Gibran
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.
John Patrick
I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
Eleanor Roosevelt
The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.
C.S Lewis
The difference between school and life? In school, you're taught a lesson and then given a test. In life, you're given a test that teaches you a lesson.
Tom Bodett
To whom God gives an office he gives understanding also.
German proverbs
He who builds according to every man's advice will have a crooked house.
Danish proverbs
Deliberate with caution, but act with decision; and yield with graciousness, or oppose with firmness.
Charles Caleb Colton
Happy he who is made wary by others' perils.
Latin Proverbs
It is always the worst wheel that creaks.
French proverbs
What is in the heart of the sober man is on the tongue of the drunken man.
The superior man acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his action.
Do not judge of the ship while it is on the stocks.
Italian proverbs
An old dog does not bark for nothing.
Think much, say little, write less.
