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| Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. ~ Elbert Hubbard |
| We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. ~ Michel de Montaigne |
| Wisdom begins at the end. ~ Daniel Webster |
| Patience is the companion of wisdom. ~ St. Augustine |
| Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. ~ Doug Larson |
| Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~ David Star Jordan, |
| He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. ~ Mary Wilson Little |
| Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. ~ Tom Wilson |
| How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles. ~ Bill Veeck |
| The years teach much which the days never knew. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson |
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When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange – my youth.
~ Sara Teasdale |
| The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. ~ Isaac Asimov, |
| Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. ~ Juvenal, |
| A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top. ~ Author Unknown |
| I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. ~ John Buchan |
| 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.A. Hodge |
| A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer. ~ Author Unknown |
| A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. ~ Chinese Proverb |
| Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. ~ Norman Cousins |
| It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves. ~ François Duc de La Rochefoucauld |
| Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. ~ Josh Billings |
| Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant. ~ Carrie Latet |
| There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. ~ Robert Brault |
The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
| Every wise man lives in an observatory. ~ Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, |
| Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~ Martin H. Fischer |
| A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. ~ Herb Caen |
| There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart. ~ Charles Dickens |
| Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. ~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge |
| No man was ever wise by chance. ~ Seneca |