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Camouflage: Wise guise. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wisdom begins in wonder. - Socrates

The wisest of the wise may err. - Aeschylus

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

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

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

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - JRR Tolkien

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

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

A wise man cares not for what he cannot have. - Unknown

A wise man hears one word and understands two. - Yiddish

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination. - Napoleon Bonaparte

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

Dogma is the sacrifice of wisdom to consistency. - Lewis Perelman

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. - Norman Cousins

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

Wise men learn by other men's mistakes, fools by their own. - H.G. Bohn

Ceremony: The invention of wise men to keep fools at a distance - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people. - William Butler Yeats

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

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech. - Evangel

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is nothing more beautiful in this world than a healthy, wise old man. - Lin Yutang

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

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - H L Mencken

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

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

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom when he can no longer be led by the nose. - Mark Twain

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

The Lord hath created medicines out of the earth; and he that is wise will not abhor them. - The Bible

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

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

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

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic slice of truth, wisdom, is dying out. - Walter Benjamin

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

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

The man who can keep a secret may be wise, but he is not half as wise as the man with no secrets to keep. - E W Howe

If you realize that you aren't as wise today as you thought you were yesterday, you're wiser today. - Unknown

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

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

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

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one else can take for us or spare us. - Marcel Proust

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

Be not penny-wise. Riches have wings. Sometimes they fly away of themselves, and sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more. - Francis Bacon

Aging: 1. A supposed ripening into wisdom that most Westerners attempt to delay as long as possible; 2. A one-way street with no stoplights. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

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

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