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Japanese Proverb

You are wise to climb Mt. Fuji, but a fool to do it twice.

Robertson Davies

Wisdom is a variable possession. Every man is wise when pursued by a mad dog, fewer when pursued by a mad woman; only the wisest survive when attacked by a mad notion.

Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Bill Wilson

The temporary good is enemy to the permanent best.

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey

These are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.

Lin Yutang

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials.

Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Tom Wilson

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

Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.

Henry David Thoreau

All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

Sara Teasdale

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.

Tobias Smollett

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

No man was ever wise by chance.

Bertrand Russell

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Mary Wilson Little

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Juvenal

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

James Gibbons Huneker

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Elbert Hubbard

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

Lord Chesterfield

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.

Herb Caen

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

Josh Billings

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Akhenaton

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.

Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Walter Lippmann

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

Proverbs 47-8

Wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you.

Sophocles

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

Charles Dickens

There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart.

H Hahn Blavatsky

Be humble, if thou would'st attain to Wisdom. Be humbler still, when Wisdom thou hast mastered.

Vernon Cooper

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

American Indian Proverb

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Lord Ritchie-Calder

Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.

William Saroyan

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Chuang-tzu

Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Alfred Whitney

Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.

Persian Proverb

Once I had the strength but no wisdom now I have the wisdom but no strength.

Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder.

Confucius

To know that one knows what one knows, and to know that one doesn't know what one doesn't know, there lies true wisdom.

Horace

Mingle some brief folly with your wisdom.

Socrates

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Juvenal

Nature never says one thing, Wisdom another.

Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins at the end.

Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Tom Wilson

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

Isocrates

Of all possessions wisdom alone is immortal.

Lactantius

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

Juvenal

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Benjamin Franklin

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Laurence Sterne

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Heywood

I see no wisdom in saving up indignation for a rainy day.

Seneca

The arts are the servant wisdom its master.

Saint Augustine

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

M Scott Peck

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom.

Woodrow Wilson

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up by itself.

David Starr Jordan

Wisdom is know what to do next virtue is doing it.

Ken Wisdom

A person determined never to be wrong won't likely accomplish much.

Phil Jackson

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Confucius

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Victor Hugo

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Paul Engle

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Oprah Winfrey

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

Doug Larson

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Felix Frankfurter

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Francis Bacon

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

Charles Dickens

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

Baltasar Gracian

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

Cullen Hightower

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Unknown

If your prayers were always answered, you'd have a reason to doubt the wisdom of God.

Thomas Jefferson

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

John Selden

No man is wiser for his learning, wit and wisdom are born with a man.

Theodore Roosevelt

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise.

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding.

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

Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience.

Wisdom comes with winters.

A short saying oft contains much wisdom.

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

There is no wisdom without love.

Wisdom is harder to DO than it is to know.

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing what to do with what you know.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Doubt is the beginning of wisdom

How terrible it is to have wisdom when it does not benefit those who have it.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

To know when to be generous and when to be firm -- this is wisdom.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.

He is a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom.

The dentist said my wisdom teeth were retarded.

Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

Morality is temporary, wisdom is permanent.

Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge.

There is no great concurrence between learning and wisdom

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master.

Wisdom is better than wit, and in the long run will certainly have the laugh on her side.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Innocence dwells with Wisdom, but never with Ignorance.

A prudent question is one half of wisdom.

It is impossible to make wisdom hereditary.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

All true wisdom is discovered in tag lines.

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Behold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the ordinary.