Wisdom
By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.
Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
Nature herself makes the wise man rich.
Because you are women, people will force their thinking on you, their boundaries on you. They will tell you how to dress, how to behave, who you can meet and where you can go. Don't live in the shadows of people's judgement. Make your own choices in the light of your own wisdom.
A wise man admits his ignorance; an ignorant man admits he's wise.
Education: that which reveals to the wise, and conceals from the stupid, the vast limits of their knowledge.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
A beautiful woman delights the eye; a wise woman, the understanding; a pure one, the soul.
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look further than you can see.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.
Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
A smart man makes a mistake, learns from it, and never makes that mistake again. But a wise man finds a smart man and learns from him how to avoid the mistake altogether.
No man was ever wise by chance.
Begin, be bold and venture to be wise.
A wise man should so write (though in words understood by all men) that wise men only should be able to commend him.
Nature has given women so much power that the law has very wisely given them little.
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