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Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

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

Cunning is the dwarf of wisdom. - William Alger

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

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

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

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

Wise is the man who knows he has enough. - Unknown

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

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

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

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

Honesty if the first chapter in the book of wisdom. - Thomas Jefferson

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom. - Joseph Joubert

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

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. - Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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

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

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

There can be no wise politics without thought beforehand. - Annie Besant

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras

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

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

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

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

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

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

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

To acquire knowledge one must study. To acquire wisdom one must observe. - Marilyn Vos Savant

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

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

Any fool can paint a picture, but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. - Samuel Butler

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

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

The chief aim of wisdom is to enable one to bear with the stupidity of the ignorant. - Winston Churchill

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough not to lose the dream in the seeking of it. - William Faulkner

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

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. - Zen Proverb

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

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men. - Plato

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

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. - Martin Luther

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

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

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

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

Wise sayings are not only for ornament, but for action and business, having a point or edge, whereby knots in business are pierced and discovered. - Francis Bacon

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

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. - A Hodge