Spectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. Schuller
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz
Start wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Teach you children poetry; it opens the mind, lends grace to wisdom and makes the heroic virtues hereditary.
Walter Scott
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
John Selden
Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk;... →
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
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... →
No man was ever wise by chance.
A promise made is a debt unpaid.
Robert W. Service
He read his mind. He's a strange sort of man, isn't he? It's not just the advice and the wisdom that he has.
Omar Sharif