Think before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran LebowitzAction should culminate in wisdom.
Bhagavad GitaIt is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
Anatole FranceHe who lives by the crystal ball soon learns to eat ground glass.
Edgar R. FiedlerWisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.
Hyrum W. SmithIt is impossible to love and to be wise.
Francis BaconThe pine stays green in winter... wisdom in hardship.
Norman DouglasWise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise.
Cato The ElderBe happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie Gabrielle ColetteBehold, my son, with what little wisdom the world is ruled.
Count Axel Gustafsson OxenstiernaMemory is the mother of all wisdom.
AeschylusWho is a wise man? He who learns of all men.
The TalmudWisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesWisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
General Robert E. LeeBe wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis QuarlesKnowledge without wisdom is double folly.
Baltasar GracianWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius SyrusIt is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas HobbesThe truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon BonaparteBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawSo wise so young, they say, do never live long.
William ShakespeareStart wide, expand further, and never look back.
Arnold SchwarzeneggerMan is only great when he acts from passion.
Benjamin DisraeliNinety percent of all human wisdom is the ability to mind your own business.
Robert A. HeinleinTime ripens all things; no man is born wise.
Miguel de CervantesFrom the errors of others, a wise man corrects his own.
Publilius SyrusMuch wisdom often goes with fewer words.
SophoclesAll human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexander DumasWisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William WordsworthSpectacular achievement is always preceded by unspectacular preparation.
Robert H. SchullerIgnorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheA man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
AristophanesThe wisest man is he who does not fancy that he is so at all.
Nicholas BoileauWisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead.
Thomas FullerThe end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
The TalmudFull of wisdom are the ordinations of fate.
Friedrich SchillerGoodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil.
Robert A. HeinleinIt is not wise to be wiser than necessary.
Philippe QuinaultKnowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North WhiteheadA wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
Michel de MontaigneThe beginning of wisdom is to desire it.
Solomon Ibn GabirolThe road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William BlakeThe growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostWisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSome folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias SmollettDiscipline is wisdom and vice versa.
M. Scott PeckSome folks are wise and some otherwise.
Josh BillingsWisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
SophoclesThe price of wisdom is eternal thought.
Frank BirchNature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWhat wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques RousseauWho is wise in love, love most, say least.
Alfred Lord TennysonKnowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.
Alfred North WhiteheadIt is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de la RochefoucauldVanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Julian CasablancasThe invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.
Marcus Tullius CiceroKnowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroSciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.
Laurence SterneMemory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?
Martin Farquhar TupperWisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William WordsworthBefore we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.
Maurice MaeterlinckNobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius CiceroWisdom is learning what to overlook.
William JamesA mistake is simply another way of doing things.
Katharine GrahamA wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.
John Churton CollinsWe can't command our love, but we can our actions.
Arthur Conan DoyleThe fool doth think he is wise but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William ShakespeareWisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil JacksonSome men are wise, and some are otherwise.
Tobias G. SmollettBooks are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
George William CurtisWisdom comes alone through suffering.
AeschylusBeware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard ShawPain is the doorway to wisdom and to truth.
Keith MillerThe fool who persists in his folly will become wise.
William BlakeWisdom overcomes fortune.
JuvenalPatience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint AugustineIt is the folly of the world, constantly, which confounds its wisdom.
Oliver Wendell HolmesNine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltRightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.
Marcus Tullius CiceroOne of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth GalbraithWisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul EngleCaution is the eldest child of wisdom.
Victor HugoThe truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxThe sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo EmersonAll this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.
Henry David ThoreauIf I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo BuscagliaWhere there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.
Francis of AssisiCommon sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIm not young enough to know everything.
J.M. BarrieAdopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.
Ralph Waldo EmersonThe constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.
François de La RochefoucauldThe only one who is wiser than anyone is everyone.
Napoleon BonaparteA fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.
Edward G. Bulwer LyttonWisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.
Michel de MontaigneThe less you talk, the more you're listened to.
Abigail Van BurenWhat wisdom can you find greater than kindness.
Jean-Jacques RousseauTurn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah WinfreyFew people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La RochefoucauldHe swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.
G. C. (Georg Christoph) LichtenbergSelf suggestion makes you master of yourself.
W. Clement StoneAlways keep an open mind and a compassionate heart.
Phil JacksonWithout courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar GracianSilence is true wisdom's best reply.
EuripidesCowards die many times before their actual deaths
Julius CaesarTis but a part we see, and not a whole.
Alexander PopeIn action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.
Arthur SchopenhauerThink before you speak. Read before you think.
Fran LebowitzLogic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard NimoyThe young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWisdom comes by disillusionment.
George SantayanaWisdom not only gets, but once got, retains.
Francis QuarlesThe wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
William R. IngeReality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Albert EinsteinPerspective is worth 80 IQ points.
Alan KayIt's better to be a lion for a day than a sheep all your life.
Elizabeth KennyWinning is not everything, but wanting to win is.
Vince LombardiIt's very hard to know what wisdom is.
James HillmanNot engaging in ignorance is wisdom.
BodhidharmaIt is sometimes wise to forget who we are.
Publilius SyrusIt is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesWise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de MontaigneWhat is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
Norman DouglasOnly the wise possess ideas; the greater part of mankind are possessed by them.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeIn order to have wisdom we must have ignorance.
Theodore DreiserWisdom sails with wind and time.
John FlorioWe thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Stephen Vincent BenetEverything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges ClemenceauIt is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell HolmesThese are weighty secrets, and we must whisper them.
Sarah Chauncey WoolseyWisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett MardenLove is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel JohnsonI am so wise I had my mouth sewn shut.
John BerrymanA wholesome oblivion of one's neighbours is the beginning of wisdom.
Richard Le GallienneThe strongest man survives himself.
Drea DamaraWisdom begins at the end.
Daniel WebsterAll human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.
Johann Georg HamannWise men make more opportunities than they find.
Francis BaconNine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltThe hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George SantayanaThe art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
William JamesWisdom is to the mind what health is to the body.
François de La RochefoucauldThe greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.
Constantin StanislavskiSilence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis BaconThe growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.
Friedrich NietzscheBe wisely worldly, but not worldly wise.
Francis QuarlesWhere fear is present, wisdom cannot be.
LactantiusThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth GalbraithThere is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
Friedrich NietzscheWhere sense is wanting, everything is wanting.
Benjamin FranklinLife is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert LawrenceA poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.
Robert FrostWisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William CowperNo man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus SenecaWe have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
Dora RussellRarely promise, but, if lawful, constantly perform.
William PennWisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.
William ShakespeareWisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Starr JordanIrony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole FranceThere is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles DickensBe there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George CrabbeTo keep your secret is wisdom; to expect others to keep it is folly.
William Samuel JohnsonWisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMore wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.
Antoine De SaintExuperyIf suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler YeatsIt is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.
Roger AschamAnd Wisdom be the Daughter of Experience
Leonardo DaVinciWisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesStrength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. ClintonWisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman CousinsA prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Francis BaconWisdom has never made a bigot, but learning has.
Josh Billings