"My mother is a great source of advice and wisdom and consolation for me." - Katherine HeiglTweet
"What I lack in energy, I have in wisdom." - Marcia CrossTweet
"I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures." - Lao TzuTweet
"Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion." - Benjamin FranklinTweet
"The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion." - Robert FrostTweet
"It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience." - Roger AschamTweet
"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials." - Lin YutangTweet
"Old myths, old gods, old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our mind, waiting for our call. We have need for them. They represent the wisdom of our race." - Stanley KunitzTweet
"In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit." - Deepak ChopraTweet
"It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed 'Wisdom.' And then I know exactly what is going to follow: 'Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'" - Ludwig WittgensteinTweet