Merry Christmas from the Three Wise Owls

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

No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

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

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom. - e e cummings

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

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

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. - Leonard Nimoy

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

Into the darkness they go, the wise and the lovely. - Edna St. Vincent Millay

The wise person questions himself, the fool others. - Henri Arnold

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

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

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

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

If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them. - Yiddish Proverb

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

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. - Unknown

The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. - Chinese Proverb

Alone and warming his five wits, the white owl in the belfry sits. - Alfred Tennyson

The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

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

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

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child. - Ron Wild

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - H L Mencken

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

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

I'm a night owl for sure. I was born at 1 A.M., and that's the excuse I use. - Karla Souza

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

If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist's office would be full of luminous ideas. - Mason Cooley

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

The first point of wisdom is to. discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. - Lactantius

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

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

Knowledge alone is not enough. It must be leavened with magnanimity before it becomes wisdom. - Adlai E. Stevenson

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

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don't say it. - Sam Levenson

He who devotes 16 hours a day to hard study may become as wise at 60 as he thought himself at 20. - Mary Wilson Little

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

I think the shocking thing to discover is the owls are not stupid and very feral, very hard to train. - Robbie Coltrane

Everything's challenging for me, singing-wise. I'm like an old truck with one gear left on it. - Michael McDonald

A wise girl kisses but doesn't love, listens but doesn't believe, and leaves before she is left. - Marilyn Monroe

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

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. - Bertrand Russell

I will be deafer than the blue-eyed cat, And thrice as blind as any noonday owl, To holy virgins in their ecstasies. - Alfred Tennyson

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

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

You are Mr. Owl. I am Ms. Hummingbird. We may come from different species but as long as you're a bird, I'm a bird too. - Glad Munaiseche