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From the enlightenment of music comes the wisdom of... silence.
- Unknown


Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- George Santayana


The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw


These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.
- Vernon Cooper


The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
- Benjamin Franklin


There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
- Charles Dickens


Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.
- William Saroyan


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


Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
- Robert Gary Lee


We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
- Stephen Vincent Benet


Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
- Sophocles


Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- Saint Augustine


Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
- Norman Cousins


Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
- William Cowper


Patience is the companion of wisdom.
- St. Augustine


Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold...
- Bob Marley


The years teach much which the days never knew.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Samuel Johnson


Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.
- Unknown


Wisdom begins at the end.
- Daniel Webster


Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
- Sophocles


Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.
- Kahlil Gibran


We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
- George Bernard Shaw


A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
- Unknown


Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
- Josh Billings


Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
- Samuel Johnson


Meditation brings wisdom, lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
- Buddha


Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
- Unknown


Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
- Tobias Smollett


It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
- W. R. Inge


Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant


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


Giving advice is sometimes only showing our wisdom at the expense of others.
- Anthony Shaftesbury


Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
- Juvenal, Satires


Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.
- Ron Wild


Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge


Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
- Lin Yutang


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