That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Start with what is right rather than what is acceptable.
Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.
The woods were a boon; all too often, the forest offered danger and mystery. Yet it could be liberating. If you entered that wild place on its own terms, you might be accorded wisdom.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
If you're trying to achieve, there will be roadblocks. I've had them; everybody has had them. But obstacles don't have to stop you. If you run into a wall, don't turn around and give up. Figure out how to climb it, go through it, or work around it.
You must accept responsibility for your actions, but not the credit for your achievements.
If you call failures experiments, you can put them in your resume and claim them as achievements.
The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low, and achieving our mark.
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.
Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.
The experience gathered from books, though often valuable, is but the nature of learning; whereas the experience gained from actual life is one of the nature of wisdom.
In the beginning, Adam was instructed to earn the bread by the sweat of his brow - not Eve. Contrary to conventional wisdom, a mother's place is in the home!
Every one in the world ought to do the things for which he is specially adapted. It is the part of wisdom to recognize what each one of us is best fitted for, and it is the part of education to perfect and utilize such predispositions. Because education can direct and aid nature but can never transform her.