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

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" The key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning, for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. "

" Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. "

" In my life, I was always floating around the edge of the dark side and saying what if take it a little bit too far, and who says you have to stop there, and what's behind the next door. Maybe you gain a wisdom from examining those things. But after a while, you get too far down in the quicksand. "

" Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds. "

" Please all, and you will please none. "

" To light one candle to God and another to the Devil is the principle of wisdom. "

" It is better to rust out than wear out. "

" Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity. "

Saint Augustine

" Patience is the companion of wisdom. "

Saint Augustine

" Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by. "

" It's the little details that are vital. Little things make big things happen. "

" Where can we find greater structural clarity than in the wooden buildings of old? Where else can we find such unity of material, construction and form? here, the wisdom of whole generations is stored. "

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

" What we see depends mainly on what we look for. "

" Robots have already surpassed human beings in calculation and memory, but I have no doubt that the time will come when they will surpass in wisdom as well. "

" What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. "

Christopher Reeve

" The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark. "

" Don't taunt the alligator until after you've crossed the creek. "

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. "

William Feather

" Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God. "

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

Margaret Fuller

" After 25-plus years as a lawyer, prosecutor, and defense attorney, I have developed a deep appreciation for both the wisdom of the law and the role that jurists play in framing the rights and responsibilities that define our society. "

" The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention. "

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

Thomas Babington Macaulay

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

" Every speaker has a mouth; An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. "

" Every silver lining has a cloud. "

" To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it. "

" A good memory is surely a compost heap that converts experience to wisdom, creativity, or dottiness; not that these things are of much earthly value, but at least they may keep you amused when the world is keeping you locked away or shutting you out. "

" Combine the extremes, and you will have the true center. "

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

" The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. "

Benjamin Disraeli