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Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

I'd rather be funny than wise. - Dennis Miller

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

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

Silence is true wisdom's best reply. - Euripides

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

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

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

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

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

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

A wise traveler never despises his own country. - Carlo Goldoni

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

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

Many receive advice, but only the wise profit from it. - Syrus

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

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

Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men. - Cato

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

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

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

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

I prefer the errors of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

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

Early to bed and early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise. - Benjamin Franklin

The wise man does not lay up treasure. The more he gives the more he has. - Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

It is wise to apply the refined oil of politeness to the mechanism of friendship. - Colette

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

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen

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

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

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

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. - Eleanor Roosevelt

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information? - T S Eliot

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

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

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

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge - who knows where it is written and where it is to be found. - A.A. Hodge

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

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

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

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

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

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. - Lin-Chi

Mistakes are the stepping stones to wisdom. We learn from trial and error; we become wise by understanding problems. - Leon Brown

The man of wisdom is never of two minds;
the man of benevolence never worries;
the man of courage is never afraid. - Confucius

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

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