Wise Moves

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah

Never insult anyone by accident. - Robert A. Heinlein

Everyone is wise until he speaks. - Irish Drinking Toast

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

Patience is the companion of wisdom. - St. Augustine

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

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

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

Safety doesn't happen by accident. - Unknown

For even the very wise cannot see all ends. - JRR Tolkien

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength. - Phil Jackson

Success: the ability to make wise decisions. - Hebrew Saying

Poetry begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

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

Much wisdom often goes with the fewest words. - Sophocles

It is a wise father that knows his own child. - William Shakespeare

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

Of all parts of wisdom the practice is the best. - John Tillotson

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom. - William Blake

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

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

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. - Sir Francis Bacon

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. - Unknown

A proverb is a wise saying, old yet radiant with novelty. - Erasmus

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

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

When you aim for perfection, you discover it's a moving target. - George Fisher

Teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. - Psalms 90:12

Can grave and formal pass for wise,
When Men the solemn Owl despise? - Benjamin Franklin

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

All this worldly wisdom was once the unnameable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

I aimed at the public's heart and by accident I hit it in the stomach. - Upton Sinclair

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

By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step, he's too old to go anywhere. - Billy Crystal

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

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

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all the other woes of mankind, is wisdom. - Thomas Huxley

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

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

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

Wisdom is the ability to acquire knowledge and analyze it both logically and emotionally. - Vivian Clayton

To be born free is an accident; to live free a responsibility; to die free is an obligation. - Mrs. Hubbard Davis

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something. - Plato

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something. - Plato

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

Authority without wisdom is like a heavy axe without an edge, fitter to bruise than to polish. - Anne Bradstreet

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

Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. - Ferris Bueller

I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving. - Steven Wright

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

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

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

Life is not about all the wrong moves you made. Life is about the one right move that made all the difference. - James Lockhart

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

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

It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or fortune but just yourself that kept things from you. - Lillian Hellman

We learn wisdom from failure much more than success. We often discover what we will do, by finding out what we will not do. - Samuel Smiles

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

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

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

If Beethoven had been killed in a plane crash at the age of twenty-two, it would have changed the history of music... and of aviation. - Tom Stoppard

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

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. - Lord Francis Bacon

Success is no accident. It is hard work, perseverance, learning, studying, sacrifice and most of all, love of what you are doing or learning to do. - Pele