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

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" Come, come, leave business to idlers, and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty, and pleasure my occupation, and let father Time shake his glass. "

William Congreve

" We now use the word 'nature' very much as our fathers used the word 'God.' "

" 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. "

" Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency. "

" Wisdom is found only in truth. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser. "

" I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. "

" Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself. "

Marcus Tullius Cicero

" To strong, susceptible characters, the music of nature is not confined to sweet sounds. "

" A short saying often contains much wisdom. "

" The way you see people is the way you treat them, and the way you treat them is what they become. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. "

" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

" We developed a technology called artificial swarm intelligence, which is all about tapping the inherent knowledge, wisdom, intuition of groups. "

Louis B. Rosenberg

" The red squirrel is more common and less dignified than the gray, and oftener guilty of petty larceny about the barns and grain-fields. "

" If I were to name the three most precious resources of life, I should say books, friends, and nature. And the greatest of these, at least the most constant and always at hand, is nature. "

" Never cut what you can untie. "

" We gain the strength of the temptation we resist. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Influential people are never satisfied with the status quo. They're the ones who constantly ask, 'What if?' and 'Why not?' They're not afraid to challenge conventional wisdom, and they don't disrupt things for the sake of being disruptive; they do it to make things better. "

Travis Bradberry

" We do not sit as a superlegislature to weigh the wisdom of legislation. "

William O. Douglas

" Applause is a receipt, not a bill. "

" Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity. "

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

" I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth. "

" We can't really digest food unless there's hunger. So we can't really assimilate spiritual wisdom unless we feel the need for it. "

Radhanath Swami

" My life has been a fortunate one; I was born under a lucky star. It seems as if both wind and tide had favoured me. I have suffered no great losses, or defeats, or illness, or accidents, and have undergone no great struggles or privations; I have had no grouch. I have not wanted the earth. "

" Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. "

Ralph Waldo Emerson

" Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. "

Bertrand Russell

" There is a trade off - as you grow older you gain wisdom but you lose spontaneity. "

" The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. "

" To many forms of life of our northern lands, winter means a long sleep; to others, it means what it means to many fortunate human beings - travels in warm climes. To still others, who again have their human prototypes, it means a struggle, more or less fierce, to keep soul and body together; while to many insect forms, it means death. "