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No man was ever wise by chance. - Seneca

A word to the wise is infuriating. - Hunter S Thompson

Wisdom is the sunlight of the soul. - German Proverb

In youth and beauty wisdom is rare. - Homer

What the wise seek is in themselves. - Confucius

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

Wisdom is better than gold or silver. - German Proverb

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. - Jimi Hendrix

Children are the wisdom of the nation. - African Saying

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

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

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

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

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom. - Herman Hesse

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

It is not wisdom but authority that makes a law. - Thomas Hobbes

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

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

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

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt

Giftedness is your accelerator; wisdom is your brake. - Gerald Brooks

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

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

It is best to learn wisdom by the experience of others. - Latin Proverb

Wise men don't need advice. Fools don't take it. - Benjamin Franklin

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. - Albert Einstein

A fool is known by his speech; and a wise man by silence. - Pythagoras

Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy. - Ludwig van Beethoven

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

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

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

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

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

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. - William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

An almost perfect relationship with his father was the earthly root of all his wisdom. - C S Lewis

No man is so wise that he knows everything, nor is any man so stupid he knows nothing. - Amish Saying

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

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

may I be I is the only prayer - not may I be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong. - e e cummings

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior. - Hippolyte Taine

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

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

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

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

Even a wise man knows doubt from time to time, it is the fool who allows it to rule his judgement. - Jennifer Hudock

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

I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power, the greater it will be. - Thomas Jefferson

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

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 be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent. - Buddha

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

It is too often seen, that the wiser men are about the things of this world, the less wise they are about the things of the next. - Edmund Gibson

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn't do anything to you, but since you aren't wise, you need us who are old. - Martin Luther

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say; a wise man knows whether or not to say it. - Frank M. Garafola

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

Aging: 1. A supposed ripening into wisdom that most Westerners attempt to delay as long as possible; 2. A one-way street with no stoplights. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

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

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

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. - Francis Bacon

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. - A Hodge