Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think. – Alfred Austin
It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary. – Richard Whately
The opportunity for brotherhood presents itself every time you meet a human being. – Jane Wyman
It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance. – Harold S. Geneen
Wise kings generally have wise counselors and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one. – Diogenes
It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own. – William Ralph Inge
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent if you believe the military, nothing is safe. – Lord Salisbury
Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. – Walter Benjamin
The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. – Dean Inge
Virtues are acquired through endeavor, which rests wholly upon yourself. – Sidney Lanier
You must learn day by day, year by year to broaden your horizon. The more things you love, the more you are interested in, the more you enjoy, the more you are indignant about, the more you have left when anything happens. – Ethel Barrymore
Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action. – Thomas B. Macaulay
The day of fortune is like a harvest day, We must be busy when the corn is ripe. – Torquato Tasso
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself. – Khalil Gibran
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. – Khalil Gibran
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. – Francis Bacon
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle
The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom. – Aristotle
