There is something about a mortarboard that gives otherwise sane and normal people the overwhelming urge to burden you with advice. Some of them cannot help themselves. They were asked to do it by a committee. But one can only take so many pieces of wisdom before they all start to blur together.

Alexandra Petri

People seldom refuse help, if one offers it in the right way.

A. C. Benson

Wisdom comes from within. Knowledge is acquired and can sometimes put a screen on your wisdom.

A. R. Rahman

Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame.

Abbott L. Lowell

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.

Abdullah II of Jordan

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Abigail Adams

Above all, you must fight conceit, envy, and every kind of ill-feeling in your heart.

Abraham Cahan

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

Abraham Maslow

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Abraham Verghese

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

I think there is a complicated side effect to overcoming evil in that we are forever changed by it. I think after we ingest some of the cruelty of the world, it takes years off of our lives, but it also gives us wisdom and a little grace, hopefully a sense of compassion.

Adam Rapp

It is now conventional wisdom that Americans do not care why we went to war in Iraq, that it is enough that the world is better off without Saddam Hussein.

Adam Schiff

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Adlai Stevenson I

Consider this point. It is a main point of true wisdom. Whenever there is an execution of purpose, there must be an agent.

Adoniram Judson

We learn from each other. We learn from others' mistakes, from their experience, their wisdom. It makes it easier for us to come to better decisions in our own lives.

Adrian Grenier

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.

Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.

Aeschylus

Of prosperity mortals can never have enough.

Aeschylus

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.

Aeschylus

Please all, and you will please none.

Aesop