“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
Wisdom is not the same as intelligence — it is intelligence filtered through experience, humility, and time. These quotes offer the kind of perspective you usually have to live several decades to acquire, compressed into a sentence or two.
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.”
“When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.”
“Wisdom is a sacred communion.”
“Full of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.”
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
“Spending two years on my uncle's ranch in Montana as a young man gave me the wisdom and the thrust to do westerns.”
“Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.”
“Memory is the mother of all wisdom.”
“It's very hard to know what wisdom is.”
“A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.”
“Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.”
“Wisdom begins in wonder.”
“Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.”
“One part of wisdom is knowing what you don't need anymore and letting it go.”
“From the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.”
“Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfish to seek other than itself.”