Merry Christmas from the Three Wise Owls

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah Winfrey

A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

The wisest of the wise may err. - Aeschylus

Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast

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

A silent man is easily reputed wise. - Frederick W Robertson

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

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

The wise speak only of what they know. - Gandalf

Doubt is often the beginning of wisdom. - M. Scott Peck

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

We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise. - Aeschylus

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

So wise so young, they say, do never live long. - William Shakespeare

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

Computer logic is no substitute for human wisdom. - Unknown

Common sense is wisdom with its sleeves rolled up. - Kyle Farnsworth

The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook. - William James

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

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

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

Better mad with the rest of the world than wise alone. - Baltasar Gracian

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

To live is to dream, and to dream pleasantly is to be wise. - Frederick Schiller

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

By associating with wise people you will become wise yourself. - Menander

Wise people learn when they can.
Fools learn when they must. - Arthur Wellesley Wellington

A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart. - Jonathan Swift

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

In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer. - Oscar Wilde

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

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

Fortune, seeing that she could not make fools wise, has made them lucky. - Michel de Montaigne

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

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

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

The desire to reach for the stars is ambitious. The desire to reach hearts is wise. - Maya Angelou

Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. - Miles Kington

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

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

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

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

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

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

Wise Husband: One who buys his wife such fine china she won't trust him to wash the dishes - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. - Admiral Richard Byrd

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

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

Education: that which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. - Ambrose Bierce

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

The abdomen, the chest, and the brain will forever be shut from the intrusion of the wise and humane surgeon. - Eric Ericksen

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

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

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

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