Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.
Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
You look like an angel, walk like an angel, talk like an angel. But I got wise, you're the devil in disguise.
You can't be wise and in love at the same time.
What the wise do in the beginning, fools do in the end.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The world is not composed of heroes and villains, but of men and women with all the passions that God has given them. The ignorant condemn, but the wise pity.
Wise girls kiss but never love,Listen but never believe,And leave before they are left.
An American Monkey after getting drunk on Brandy would never touch it again, and thus is much wiser than most men.
A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared; an act of charity which he has performed; domestic conflicts; private affairs with his wife; poorly prepared food he may have been offered; or slang he may have heard.
A wise man should marry a virgin of a respectable family even if she is deformed. He should not marry one of a low-class family, through beauty. Marriage in a family of equal status is preferable.
A man is not called wise because he talks and talks again; but if he is peaceful, loving and fearless then he is in truth called wise.
The foolish man conceives the idea of 'self.' The wise man sees there is no ground on which to build the idea of 'self;' thus, he has a right conception of the world and well concludes that all compounds amassed by sorrow will be dissolved again, but the truth will remain.
To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
Even as a solid rock is unshaken by the wind, so are the wise unshaken by praise or blame.
Though one should live a hundred years without wisdom and control, yet better, indeed, is a single day's life of one who is wise and meditative.
The wise man makes an island of himself that no flood can overwhelm.
Should you find a wise critic to point out your faults, follow him as you would a guide to hidden treasure.
Good people keep on walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are the same in good fortune and bad. If one desires neither children nor wealth nor power nor success by unfair means, know such a one to be good, wise and virtuous.
The wise man should restrain his senses like the crane and accomplish his purpose with due knowledge of his place, time and ability.
