Do you have any words of wisdom?

Question

'Carpe Diem' - Seize the day from the film, 'Dead Poet's Society'.

Answer 1

Wisdom doesn't automatically come with old age. Nothing does - except wrinkles. It's true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren (1918 - ), 1978

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell (1872 - 1970)

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.
Cullen Hightower

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.
George Santayana (1863 - 1952)

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956)

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
Horace (65 BC - 8 BC), Odes

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant (1724 - 1804)

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
James Boswell (1740 - 1795), Life of Samuel Johnson, 1791

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.
Mahatma Gandhi (1869 - 1948)

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust (1871 - 1922)

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.
Menander (342 BC - 292 BC), Unidentified fragment

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise
seem foolish.
Quintilian, De Institutione Oratoria

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.
Robbie Gass

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles (496 BC - 406 BC), Antigone

No man is wise enough by himself.
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Miles Gloriosus

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.
Titus Maccius Plautus (254 BC - 184 BC), Trinummus

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Unknown

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
Walt Whitman (1819 - 1892)

Answer 2

I thought Carpe Diem was from Shakespeare.

But I like:

Don't sweat the petty things, and don't pet the sweaty things.

Answer 3

Depends on the subject.

Everyone, on an almost daily basis deliver "pearls" of wisdom without knowing it. The recipient usually rejects it as "piffle" "rubbish" or "crap"

This is a world wide problem especially among or various leaders,, who need to learn to "pick the fly crap out of the pepper"

Answer 4

Know Thyself.

It is said these world (In ancient Greek) were inscribed at the Oricle at Delphi

Answer 5

Hace credam a deo pio? A deo iusto, a deo scico? Cruciatus in crucem. Tuus in terra sertvus, nuntius fui. Officium perfecti. Cruciatus in crucem. Eas in crucem.

(Translation: Am I really to believe that these are the acts of a loving God? A just God? A wise God? To hell with your punishments. I was your servant here on Earth. And I spread your word and I did your work. To hell with your punishments. To hell with you.)

Answer 6

People with their head in the clouds, have stars in thier eyes.

Everycloud has a silver lining if only you open your eyes to see it.

Positives are when you turn the negatives around.

Answer 7

Easy. Don't worry- Be Happy (you can sing the rest of the words to the song yourself.)

Answer 8

Buy high and sell low. Or buy low and sell high. One of those anyway. Give it a whirl it always works for me 50% of the time

Answer 9

Live Fast, Die Young, Leave a good looking corpse!

Answer 10

Anyone who tells you everything you want to hear is either a cad or an Army recruiter.