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
