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If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.

If you don't know where you're going, when you get there you'll be lost.

Wisdom, Lost, Knows

There are a sort of men, whose visages Do cream and mantle, like a standing pond; And do a willful stillness entertain, With purpose to be dressed in an opinion Of wisdom, gravity profound conceit; As who should say, I am sir Oracle, And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!

William Shakespeare

Wisdom, Dog, Men

'The Merchant of Venice' (1596-8) act 1, sc. 1, l. 88

Full oft we see Cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly.

William Shakespeare

Wisdom, Waiting, Cold

William Shakespeare (1866). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.289

The rise of Islam offers perhaps the most impressive example in world history of the power of words to alter human behavior in sudden, surprising ways.

William Hardy McNeill

Wisdom, Islamic, Example

"Keeping Together in Time". Book by William Hardy McNeill, Ch. 4: Religious Ceremonies, 1995.

'Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it.

William Cowper

Weed, Wisdom, Flower

William Cowper (1856). “The task, Table talk, and other poems: With critical observations of various authors on his genius and character, and notes, critical and illustrative”, p.271

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace.

William Cowper

Wisdom, Fall, Taken

William Cowper (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Table talk. The task. Tirocinium; or, A review of schools. Miscellaneous poems”, p.33

Some people are more nice than wise.

William Cowper

Wise, Wisdom, Nice

William Cowper, Robert Southey, William Harvey (1835). “The Works of William Cowper: Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations. With a Life of the Author”, p.213

Truth, crushed to earth, shall rise again.

William C. Bryant

Wisdom, Truth, Honesty

William Cullen Bryant, “The Battle-Field”

Even the wisest man grows tense With some sort of violence Before he can accomplish fate, Know his work or choose his mate. Poet and sculptor, do the work, Nor let the modish painter shirk

William Butler Yeats

Wisdom, Art, Fate

William Butler Yeats (1997). “The Collected Works of W. B. Yeats: Volume I: The Poems, 2nd Edition”, p.334, Simon and Schuster

Live your life so that whenever you lose, you are ahead.

Will Rogers

Wisdom, Advice, Live Your Life

Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.229, Rowman & Littlefield

A man can be saved and not believe in the Doctrines of Grace...but he must be a very proud man. Unknown-but if you know who said it, please tell me You're born. You suffer. You die. Fortunately, there's a loophole.

Will Graham

Death, Wisdom, Lying

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches.

Walter Savage Landor

Christian, Wise, Wisdom

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.101

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory.

Walter Savage Landor

Wisdom, Lasting Happiness, Knowing

Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.138

The writing of the wise are the only riches our posterity cannot squander.

Walter Savage Landor

Wise, Wisdom, Writing

Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

Solitude is the audience-chamber of God.

Walter Savage Landor

God, Wise, Wisdom

Walter Savage Landor (1824). “Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen: Richard I and the Abbot of Boxley. The Lord Brooke and Sir Philip Sidney. King Henry IV and Sir Arnold Savage. Southey and Porson. Oliver Cromwel and Walter Noble. Aeschines and Phocion. Queen Elizabeth and Cecil. King James I and Isaac Casaubon. Marchese Pallavicini and Walter Landor. General Kleber and some French officers. Bonaparte and the president of the senate. Bishop Burnet and Humphrey Hardcastle. Peter Leopold and the President Du”, p.16

[I]f the gentleness of your spirit needs a dash of vinegar, borrow a little from Our Lord's spirit. O Mademoiselle, how well He knew how to find a bittersweet remark when it is needed!

Vincent de Paul

Wisdom, Needs, Littles

Saint Vincent de Paul, Saint Louise de Marillac, Frances Ryan, John E. Rybolt (1995). “Vincent de Paul and Louise de Marillac: Rules, Conferences, and Writings”, p.157, Paulist Press

Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer. . . . Since it is impossible to please all of [those you serve], they offer you the occasion for practices which increase your merit in the measure that you make them meritorious by your patience.

Vincent de Paul

Wisdom, Practice, Suffering

Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Apr. 1650-July 1653”