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Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Turn your wounds into wisdom. - Oprah

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

Be quick to learn and wise to know. - George Burns

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

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. - Charles Dickens

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. - Plutarch

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

Time ripens all things, no man is born wise. - Miguel de Cervantes

Prosperity tries the souls even of the wise. - Sallust

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

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

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

Wise men make proverbs, but fools repeat them. - Samuel Palmer

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

The wise learns many things from their enemies. - Aristophanes

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

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

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

Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom. - Aristotle

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

One must be a wise reader to quote wisely and well. - Amos Bronson Alcott

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

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

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

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

A wise man will live as much within his wit as his income. - Philip Dormer Stanhope

All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope. - Alexandre Dumas

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. - William Wordsworth

It is better to weep with wise men than to laugh with fools. - Spanish Proverb

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

The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. - William Hazlitt

A wise man learns by the mistakes of others, a fool by his own. - Latin Proverb

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

With the ancient is wisdom, and in length of days understanding. - Job 12:1

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

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. - Oscar Wilde

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 not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. - Albert Einstein

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 next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are. - C S Lewis

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

We can learn much from wise words, little from wisecracks, and less from wise guys. - William Arthur Ward

The wise man should be prepared for everything that does not lie within his control. - Pythagoras

And what is better than wisdom? Woman. And what is better than a good woman? Nothing. - Geoffrey Chaucer

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

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

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter. - Joseph Addison

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway. - Albert Einstein

Wise leaders generally have wise counselors because it takes a wise person themselves to distinguish them. - Diogenes of Sinope

It's easy to get a reputation for wisdom. It's only necessary to live long, speak little and do less. - P.D. James

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

Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. - Terence

When hungry, eat your rice; when tired, close your eyes. Fools may laugh at me, but wise men will know what I mean. - Lin-Chi

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

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

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. - Frederic Amiel

The person who has a firm trust in the Supreme Being is powerful in his power, wise by his wisdom, happy by his happiness. - Joseph Addison

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

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

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. - Thomas Carlyle

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

A wise man knows when to stay silent. However, a wiser man of faith knows that sometimes words can win the battle when all odds stand against you. - Shannon L. Alder