“I know what I have given you. I do not know what you have received”

“God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.”

“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it”

“Until this moment, I never understood how hard it was to lose something you never had.”

“In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.”

“The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.”

“Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.”

“Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.”

“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.”

“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”

“Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty, often hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. As love grows older, our hearts mature and our love becomes as coals, deep-burning and unquenchable.”

“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”

“We must become the change we want to see.”

“A man only becomes wise when he begins to calculate the approximate depth of his ignorance.”