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Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. - Colette

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

Wise is he who collects the wisdom of others. - Juan Guerra Caceras

Fools look to tomorrow; wise men use tonight. - Scottish Proverb

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. - Euripides

It is never wise to discourage youthful idealism. - Stephen Kinzer

Even in wise men there is more folly than wisdom. - Sebastien Chamfort

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. - Horace

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. - Aeschylus

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

If silence be good for the wise, how much the better for fools. - Talmud

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

Wisdom is becoming competent with regard to the realities of life. - Gerhard von Rad

The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool. - Epicurus

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

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel de Montaigne

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

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

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

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginnings and onsets of things. - Francis Bacon

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each hour as it goes by. - E S Bouton

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance. The wise grows it under his feet. - James Oppenheim

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quoatations. - Benjamin Disraeli

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

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

A wise man adapts himself to circumstances, as water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it. - Chinese Proverb

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. - John S Mill

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

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

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

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

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner. - Omar Bradley

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

He is one of those wise philanthropists who, in a time of famine, would vote for nothing but a supply of toothpicks. - Douglas Jerrold

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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

To make no mistake is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future. - Plutarch

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next. - Edmund Gibson

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

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