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Kindness is wisdom. - Phillip J. Bailey

Camouflage: Wise guise. - Daffynitions joe-ks.com

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. - Sophocles

Wisdom is found only in truth. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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

He was a wise man who invented God. - Plato

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. - Alfred Tennyson

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe. - Aristophenes

Water is the only drink for a wise man. - Henry David Thoreau

The good and the wise lead quiet lives. - Euripides

A short saying oft contains much wisdom. - Sophocles

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

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. - Francis Bacon

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

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

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! - Homer

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

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

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

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

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

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

The desire for fame is the last weakness wise men put off. - Tacitus

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

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

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

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

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Ignorance and bungling with love are better than wisdom and skill without. - Henry David Thoreau

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

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

The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart. - Benjamin Franklin

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

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

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

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. - Edward Humphrey

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

We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom. - Leo Tolstov

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

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

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

Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head. - Ambrose Bierce

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

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

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

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

God gives men wisdom as he gives them gold; his treasure house is not the mint, but the mine. - Arabic Proverb

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

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

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

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

It is better to speak wisdom foolishly like the saints than to speak folly wisely like the deans. - G K Chesterton

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. - Naguib Mahfouz

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

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

The truth is that whenever a fence is removed, it's wise to ask why it was put there in the first place. - Ravi Zacharias

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

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

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

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 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

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