Wisdom alone is true ambition's aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Alfred North Whitehead aimambitionemploy Change image and share on social
Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart. Abraham Cahan conceitenvyfelt Change image and share on social
Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop misfortunewise Change image and share on social
It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck beargoodnessjustice Change image and share on social
He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little daydevotehard Change image and share on social
I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy. Landon Donovan conventionalearlyeurope share on social
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. Owen Feltham glassmeditationperspective Change image and share on social
In your 20s you can be pretty, but you don't accomplish real beauty until you find wisdom and depth. Evangeline Lilly 20saccomplishbeauty Change image and share on social
Who in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother. Erma Bombeck decreeinfiniteleague Change image and share on social