Wisdom comes more from living than from studying.
Specialization is the art of learning more and more about less and less.
Keep God’s truth in your head and his love in your heart.
Advice is like snow–the softer it falls, the deeper it goes.
Discretion too often marks the end of discovery.
Thinking well is wise, planning well is wiser, but doing well is wisest.
A right attitude toward others will help keep God’s truth in our head and His love in our heart.
Some folks may live and learn, but by the time they’ve learned it’s usually too late to live.
A stiff neck usually supports an empty head.
It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.
A person is not necessarily smart just because he says things that are smart.
It is surprising how many know how to make a good living, yet do not know how to live good.
Learning is the preface of doing, and if it is done well, it results in wisdom.
Don’t forget in the darkness what you learned in the light.
Why can’t life’s problems hit us when we’re eighteen and know everything?
If we should lock up all the feeble-minded, who would write all our hit songs?
The good lawyer knows the law–the clever one knows the judge.
The best night spot is a comfortable bed.
If you don’t learn from your mistakes, there’s no sense in making them.
Diplomacy is the art of letting someone else have your way.
Buy cheap merchandise to save money is like stopping a clock to save time.
It is a wise man who knows that he isn’t.
People with good horse sense know when to say nay.
Wisdom consists of passing up nonessentials.
A wise man always prepares for the inevitable.
A diplomat is anyone who thinks before saying nothing.
A word to the wise isn’t as good as a word from the wise.
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Common sense is genius in homespun.
Do not ask for perfection in all you do but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes.
Wisdom? Knowing as much as thirty-six as you thought you knew at eighteen.
The middle of the road may not be the most exciting place to be, but at least you will be farther from the ditch–on either side.
Biting off more than you can chew is the way to cut some wisdom teeth.
An expert knows all the right answers if you ask him all the right questions.
Common sense is instinct; enough of it is genius.
Right reason is stronger than force.
A wise man knows more than he tells, but a fool often tells more than he knows.
A born diplomat is someone who remembers your birthday but forgets how many.
Knowledge comes by taking things apart; wisdom comes by putting them together.
The door of wisdom swings on the hinges of common sense and uncommon ignorance.
Being brilliant is not making a simple subject complicated; it is making the complicated subject simple.
True wisdom starts with a heart full of faith, not a head full of facts.
Luck is nothing but good planning properly executed.
Some people are wise–some are otherwise.
Muhammad said, “Trust Allah but tie your camels.”
Wisdom is the ability to discover the alternatives.
Fools fight one another, but wise men agree together.
The peoples of the world wouldn’t have to resort to arms if they’d use their heads.
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
A clever person is one who put his problems away for a brainy day.
Learn from the nail–its head keeps it from going too far.
Good judgment comes from experience–experience comes from bad judgment.
This is judgment day–use plenty of it.
It is unfortunate to have more dollars than sense.
Great ability without discretion usually comes to a tragic end.
There is just as much horse sense as ever, but it seems like the horses have it.
A wise man thinks all he says; a fool says all he thinks.
An efficiency expert is one who is smart enough to tell you how to run your business and too smart to start one of his own.
There are few things more difficult than the art of making advice agreeable.
Many things can give me wisdom, but only love can make me wise.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The beginning of wisdom is silence–the second is listening.
It is wise to act wise unless you are otherwise.
Diplomacy is the art of telling your friends they have “open minds” instead of “holes in their heads.”
True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things provided by each day as it goes by.
Wisdom is knowing what to do; skill is knowing how to do it; virtue is doing it well.
True wisdom is the accurate perception of what is really important.
A proverb is a short sentence based on long experience.
Wisdom is the ability to discover alternatives.
A good deal of trouble has been caused in the world by too much intelligence and too little wisdom.
It’s what we learn after we know it all that really counts.
Common sense is seeing things as they are and doing things as they should be done.
Greatness lies not in being strong, but in the right use of strength.
You don’t have to be listed in Who’s Who to know what’s what.
Two things to avoid–knowledge on ice and ignorance on fire.
A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is not indispensible.
A wise man will desire no more than he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly.
Learning is the preface of doing, and if it is done well, it results in wisdom.
A wise man is one who is never afraid to ask the shopkeeper to show him something cheaper.
Horse sense behind the steering wheel is more important than horsepower under the hood.
Wisdom is divided into two parts–having a great deal to say and not saying it.
Wisdom is only an uncommon amount of common sense.
A handful of common sense is worth a bushel of learning.
It’s a shame that nature did not provide everyone with two additional senses–horse and common.
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him or to him.
The simpler solution may not be the right one, but it’s usually the one to consider first.
Our judgment can be no better than our information.
Disillusionment is the first step toward wisdom.
What a fool does in the end, the wise man does in the beginning.
The fellow with horse sense doesn’t trot with the crowd.