Wise words

All quotes are 140 characters or less, good for tweeting

Quotes are in no particular order

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them~The Dalai Lama

Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom

The state of your life is nothing more than a reflection of your state of mind~Wayne Dyer

Reflective thinking turns experience into insight~John Maxwell

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom~ Francis Bacon

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man~ Henry David Thoreau

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another~ Juvenal

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf~Walter Lippmann

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone~ Horace

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men~Confucius

The doors of wisdom are never shut~ Benjamin Franklin

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing~ Socrates

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart~ Charles Dickens

Wisdom begins in wonder~ Socrates

Wisdom is knowing the truth, and telling it

Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love~Frank Zappa