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, The Philosophy of Despair
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
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 years teach much which the days
never knew. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
The saddest aspect of life right
now is that science gathers knowledge
faster than society gathers wisdom.
~Isaac Asimov, Isaac Asimov's Book
of Science and Nature Quotations,
1988
How can you be a sage if you're
pretty? You can't get your wizard
papers without wrinkles. ~Bill Veeck
Never does nature say one thing
and wisdom another. ~Juvenal, Satires
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
He dares to be a fool, and that
is the first step in the direction
of wisdom. ~James Gibbons Huneker
Wisdom is the quality that keeps
you from getting into situations
where you need it. ~Doug Larson
Some folks are wise and some are
otherwise. ~Tobias Smollett
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we
stoop than when we soar. ~William
Wordsworth
The young man knows the rules, but
the old man knows the exceptions.
~Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Lord Tennyson
Wisdom outweighs any wealth. ~Sophocles
The fool doth think he is wise,
but the wise man knows himself to
be a fool. ~William Shakespeare
One must spend time in gathering
knowledge to give it out richly.
~Edward C. Steadman
The art of being wise is the art
of knowing what to overlook. ~William
James
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
Knowledge is a process of piling
up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
~Harold Fabing and Ray Marr, Fischerisms,
1937
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
We are made wise not by the recollection
of our past, but by the responsibility
for our future. ~George Bernard
Shaw