"What I am thinking and doing day by day is resistlessly shaping my future-- a future in which there is no expiation except through my own better conduct. No one can live my life for me. If I am wise I shall begin today to build my own truer and better world from within." -H.W. Dresser
"Every generation, no matter how paltry its character, thinks itself much wiser than the one immediately preceding it, let alone those that are more remote." -William Shakespeare
"When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others." -Denis Diderot
"The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of our greatest storm without." -Daniel Defoe
"The force, the mass of character, mind, heart, or soul that a man can put into any work is the most important factor in that work." -A.P. Peabody
"Character development is the great, if not the sole, aim of education." -O'Shea
"The difference between a 'wise guy' and a wise man is plenty!" -Galen Starr Ross
"The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself." -Plato
"Such is the nature of men that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned, yet they will hardly believe there may be many so wise as themselves." -Thomas Hobbes
"Words may show a man's wit, but his actions his meaning." -Benjamin Franklin
"A solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise persons remain unaffected by praise or censure." -Buddha
"The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off." -Tacitus
"A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart." -Johnathan Swift
"Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same life." -Aristophanes
"Heads are wisest when they are cool and hearts strongest when they beat in response to noble ideals." -Ralph J. Bunche
"The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper." -Friedrich W. Nietzsche
"Silence is the answer to a wise man." -Euripides
"Reason unites us, not only with our contemporaries, but with men who lived two thousand years before us, and with those who will live after us." -Leo Tolstoi
"Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely." -Auguste Rodin
"You'll find as you grown older that you weren't born such a very great while ago after all. The time only shortens up." -William Dean Howells
"He was a wise man who said: 'As I grow older I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.'" -Wilfred A. Peterson
"We live in the present, we dream of the future, and we learn eternal truths from the past." -Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek
"It is delightful to transport one's self into the spirit of the past, to see how a wise man has thought before us, and to what glorious height we have at last reached." -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"Education is a continuous process ending only when amition comes to a halt." -Col. R. I. Rees
"Every day increases the sheer weight of knowledge put into our hands, some new power control over natural processes... Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it." -Frank R. Barry
"The man who graduates today and stops learning tomorrow is uneducated the day after." -Newton D. Baker
"Anyone who stops learning is old, whether this happens at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps on learning not only remains young, but becomes constantly more valuable regardless of physical capacity." -Harvey Ullman
"In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal." -W.R. Whitney
"Things that I felt absolutely sure of a few years ago, I do not believe now; and this though makes me see more clearly how foolish it would be to expect all men to agree with me." -F.D. Van Amburgh
"The sweetest path of life leads through the avenues of learning, and whoever can open up the way for another, ought, so far, to be esteemed a benefactor to mankind." -David Hume
"Get over the idea that only children should spend their time in study. Be a student so long as you still have something to learn, and this will mean all your life." -Henry L. Doherty
"They know enough who know how to learn." -Henry Adams
"Being educated means to prefer the best not only to the worst but to the second best." -William Lyon Phelps
"Education is no longer thought of as preparation for adult life, but as a continuing process of growth and development from birth until death." -Stephen Mitchell
"No man can enjoy the privileges of education and thereafter with a clear conscience break his contract with society." -Isaih Bowman
"There is hardly any place or any company where you many not gain knowledge, if you please; almost everybody knows some one thing, and is glad to talk about that one thing." -Lord Chesterfield
"You should have education enough so that you won't have to look up to people; and then more education so that you will be wise enough not to look down on people." -M.L. Boren
"Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the thing you have to do when it has to be done, whether you like it or not." -Huxley
"Education today, more than ever before, must see clearly the dual objective: Educating for living and educating for making a living." -James Mason Wood
"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." -Aristotle
"The young man who has the combination of the learning of books with the learning which comes of doing things with the hands need not worry about getting along in the world today, or at any time." -William S. Knudsen
"Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much are the three pillars of learning." -Benjamin Disraeli
"Learning makes a man fit company for himself." -Young
"Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous." -Confucius