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A wise man once said nothing. - Unknown

Doubt is the origin of wisdom. - Rene Descartes

No man is wise enough by himself. - Plautus

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

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

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

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

The wise speak only of what they know. - Gandalf

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

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

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

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

A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom. - Robert Frost

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

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

Silence makes idiots seem wise even for a minute. - Carlos R Zafon

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

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

In growing old, we become more foolish - and more wise. - Francois de la Rochefoucauld

Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom. - Unknown

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. - Anatole France

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

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. - Lao-Tzu

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

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

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

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late. - Benjamin Franklin

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

A wise man gets more use from his enemies than a fool from his friends. - Baltasar Gracian

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. - William Penn

He that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom. - JRR Tolkien

In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is freedom, in water there is bacteria. - Ben Franklin

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

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

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each hour as it goes by. - E S Bouton

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

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

With money in your pocket, you are wise and you are handsome - and you sing well too. - Yiddish Proverb

A word to the wise ain't necessary. It's the stupid ones who need the advice. - Bill Cosby

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

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

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

Do not correct a fool or he will hate you. Correct a wise man and he will appreciate you. - Unknown

Even fools are thought wise if they keep silent, and discerning if they hold their tongue. - Old Testament

Within us is the soul of the whole, the wise silence, the universal beauty, the eternal One. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour. - Seneca

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

Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself. - Rumi

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

The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful, and then only for a short while. - Albert Einstein

I cannot work; I cannot speak; I cannot live or love as I should, unless God's wisdom lights my path. - David Jeremiah

There is no such thing as an omen. Destiny does not send us heralds. She is too wise or too cruel for that. - Oscar Wilde

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

We are each given a limitless capacity to love and attain wisdom. The extent we use these gifts is our choice. - Anthony Douglas

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

Music is your own experience, your thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. - Charlie Parker

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 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 cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him. - Samuel Johnson

God gave unto the Animals
A wisdom past our power to see:
Each knows innately how to live,
Which we must learn laboriously. - Margaret Atwood

Each one must learn for himself the highest wisdom. It cannot be taught in words. Men who work cannot dream, and wisdom comes to us in dreams. - Smohalla

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. - Reinhold Niebuhr

An optimist is a person who sees a green light everywhere, while a pessimist sees only the red stoplight. The truly wise person is colorblind. - Albert Schweitzer

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

If you decide to stop flying, it is wise to hang on to your wings, for you may need them one day, when one of your other qualities turns dangerous. - Am Leach