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Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson

Silence does not always mark wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The fool wonders, the wise man asks. - Benjamin Disraeli

A silent man is easily reputed wise. - Frederick W Robertson

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. - Aeschylus

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

Wisdom comes with age, but keep it to yourself. - Mary Roach

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

To the wise, life is a problem; to the fool, a solution. - Marcus Aurelius

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can. - Michel de Montaigne

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

An empty purse and a new house make a man wise, but too late. - Portuguese Proverb

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

Collect as precious pearls the words of the wise and virtuous. - Abd-el-Kadar

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome - and you sing well too. - Yiddish Proverb

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice. - Bill Cosby

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David S Jordan

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. - Theodore Isaac Rubin

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality. - Andrew Jackson

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. - Marilyn Monroe

The stupid neither forgive nor forget; the naive forgive and forget; the wise forgive, but do not forget. - Thomas Szasz

The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. - Huang-Po

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

A wise man will never tell his wife to keep quiet. He will tell her she looks beautiful with her mouth closed. - Unknown

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

Year's end is neither an end nor a beginning but a going on, with all the wisdom that experience can instill in us. - Hal Borland

Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him. - Dwight D Eisenhower

He who learns the rules of wisdom without conforming to them in his life is like a man who plows in his field but does not sow. - Saadi

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation. - Moliere

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others. - Solomon Ibn Gabriol

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

Q: When is the perfect time?
A: Who can say, but probably somewhere between haste and delay - and it's usually most wise to start today. - Rasheed Ogunlaru

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass. - Joseph Addison

We spend precious hours fearing the inevitable. It would be wise to use that time adoring our families, cherishing our friends and living our lives. - Maya Angelou