"In Greece wise men speak and fools decide." - Anacharsis

"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it." - Aristotle

"It is impossible to love and to be wise." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"Nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise." - Francis Bacon, Essays

"Is not wisdom found among the aged? Does not long life bring understanding?" - Bible, Job 12:12

"The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom." - William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

"Wise men profit more from fools than fools from wise men; for the wise men shun the mistakes of fools, but fools do not imitate the successes of the wise." - Cato the Elder, quoted in Plutarch's Parallel Lives

"Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom." - Euripides, Hippolytus

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

"A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him." - Samuel Johnson

"Wisdom comes by disillusionment." - George Santayana

"The fool doth think himself wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool." - William Shakespeare

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool." - The Talmud

"Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar." - William Wordsworth

"Reading maketh a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man." - Bacon, Sir Francis

"The secret of happiness is not in doing what one likes, but in liking what one has to do." - Barrie, James M.

"The highest form of wisdom is kindness." - Berman, Linda

"When one draws in, on every side, the sense-organs from the objects of sense as a tortoise draws in its limbs from every side--then his wisdom becomes steadfast." - Bhagavad Gita ['The Lord's Song'] (250 B.C.-A.D. 250) Krishna to Arjuna

"Spiritual maturity is a lifelong process of replacing lies with truth." - Bruner, Kurt D.

"Don't go through life, grow through life." - Butterworth, Eric

"If your strength is small, don't carry heavy burdens. If your words are worthless, don't give advice." - Chinese Proverb

"The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations." - Disraeli, Benjamin, Earl of Beaconsfield (1804-1881)

"In our age... men seem more than ever prone to confuse wisdom with knowledge, and knowledge with information, and to try to solve problems of life in terms of engineering." - Eliot, T. S.

"If thou are a master, be sometimes blind; if a servant, sometimes deaf." - Fuller, Thomas

"One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know." - Galbraith, John Kenneth (1908- ) in 'Time' 1961

"All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"Nature is beneficent. I praise her and all her works. She is silent and wise. She is cunning, but for good ends. She has brought me here and will also lead me away. She may scold me, but she will not hate her work. I trust her." - Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (1749-1832)

"It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen." - Holmes, Oliver Wendell (1809-1894)

"Force without wisdom fall of its own weight." - Horace [Quintus Horatius Flaccus] (65-8 B.C.) in 'Odes', book I, ode iv, line 65 23 B.C.

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Martineau, Harriet

"From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture." - Maugham, William Somerset (1874-1965)

"Conversation would be vastly improved by the constant use of four simple words: I do not know." - Maurois, Andr] (1885-1967)

"'Rabbit's clever,' said Pooh thoughtfully. 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit's clever.' 'And he has Brain.' 'Yes,' said Piglet, 'Rabbit has Brain.' There was a long silence. 'I suppose,' said Pooh, 'that that's why he never understands anything.'" - Milne, A[lan] A[lexander] (1882-1956)

"Disdain not your inferior, though poor, since he may be your superior in wisdom, and the noble endowment of mind." - Shelley, George

"One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly." - Steadman, Edward C.

"Nothing is said that has not been said before." - Terence (185 B.C - 159 B.C.)

"A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top." - Unknown

"It is better to be ignorant then to believe in something untrue." - Unknown

"Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom." - Unknown

"Education is a an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Wilde, Oscar (1854-1900) in 'Intentions'

"But, by all thy nature's weakness, Hidden faults and follies known, Be thou, in rebuking evil, Conscious of thine own." - Whittier, John Greenleaf (1807-1892)