QuotaBillsWisdom 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