Wisdom exists in how each of us handles our own foolishness.
The mouth of the wise isn’t swallowing flies.
The wise know when less is more — more or less.
The wise win the majority’s one.
Wisdom ducks extremes — except when dressed like queens.
Wisdom is loving — thinking.
Wisdom judges the formula.
Fools are discontent; the wise to reality assent.
The wise feed on words; fools feed on herds.
Eclectic is wisdom’s electric.
Work and play most everyday.
Complicated is overrated.
Doubt carries a microscope; faith packs a lens of hope.
Only love sees what hides from hate.
The wise know they are blind, and see; fools are sure they see, and are blind.
As the astronomer scans the sky for galaxies, so the wise scan experience for insight.
We visit art galleries; they teach us how to see reality.
The natural scene informs the screen.
Look longer into people’s eys; pry shorter into their lives.
Where one sees an atom another sees a universe.
White light contains all the colors, wise judgment all the facts.
Most people see the future through the past; visionaries see pure future.
As the cat misjudges the leap so the student overestimates her ability.
The foolish watch a bad man die and rejoice; the wise see him die and grieve.
Patriotism sees only one country; wisdom sees many countries that can live as one.
Modern world leaders don’t know how to sit down and talk, only how to rise up and shoot.
A walk out-truths a talk.
Truth’s feet are in concrete.
Theories open up our minds; stories travel up our spines.
Blindness is the dreaded disability everyone has.
Trust a fable; it’s a cable.
Ruthless is truthless.
Two truths: what everyone is saying, what no one is saying.
Don’t try to make a parable stand on four legs that was made to hop about on one point.
The fool turns the truth to rule.
Truth is slate to those who hate.
A narrow mind slams one door and closes the whole mansion of truth.
A fine bike and a wise answer are sold for the same price.
There are only a few weird questions, lots of weird answers.
Modern Thought Proverbs, Aphorisms and Epigrams 