Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
SophoclesTo keep your secret is wisdom, but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel JohnsonIf you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
SophoclesExperience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose BierceThere are three classes of men, lovers of wisdom lovers of honor and lovers of gain.
PlatoIt was perhaps one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides.
Jane AustenAn explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. LewisWisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von GoetheWar involves in its progress such a train of unforeseen circumstances that no human wisdom can calculate the end, it has but one thing certain and that is to increase taxes.
Thomas PaineThe truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Ella Wheeler WilcoxWisdom alone is the science of other sciences.
PlatoCome come leave business to idlers and wisdom to fools: they have need of 'em: wit be my faculty and pleasure my occupation and let father Time shake his glass.
William CongreveIn the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People with their wisdom and unwisdom, we have to say Like People like Government.
Thomas CarlyleSome wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
EuripidesI was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Winston ChurchillIn wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.
Ansel AdamsWisdom begins in wonder.
SocratesNo party has a monopoly on wisdom. No democracy works without compromise. But when Governor Romney and his allies in Congress tell us we can somehow lower our deficit by spending trillions more on new tax breaks for the wealthy - well you do the math. I refuse to go along with that. And as long as I'm President I never will.
Barack ObamaHowever glorious an action in itself it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La RochefoucauldA prudent question is one half of wisdom.
Francis BaconThe greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool, the truest heroism is to resist the doubt, and the profoundest wisdom to know when it ought to be resisted and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel HawthorneOpen the gates of wisdom tear the veil of ignorance enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.
Sai BabaMuch wisdom often goes with fewest words.
SophoclesSilence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.
PlutarchThe advantage of the emotions is that they lead us astray.
Oscar WildeI think that we have to be constantly asking ourselves 'How do we calculate the risk?' And sometimes we don't calculate it correctly, we either overstate it or understate it.
Hillary ClintonThe enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth GalbraithEvery man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day, wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert HubbardOf all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
EpicurusThere is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so, but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis BaconIn life all good things come hard but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille BallThe hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
George SantayanaThe road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William BlakeKnowledge comes but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord TennysonGod give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed courage to change the things which should be changed and the wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Reinhold NiebuhrWe are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
Robert HallAt sixty I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason CooleyIn the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George EliotInnocence dwells with wisdom but never with ignorance
William BlakeSo confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.
Thomas JeffersonWho in their infinite wisdom decreed that Little League uniforms be white? Certainly not a mother.
Erma BombeckAnd oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.
William ShakespeareNine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore RooseveltRights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
Mahatma GandhiKnowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
PlatoThe final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold NiebuhrThe virtue of justice consists in moderation as regulated by wisdom.
AristotleMagnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom, and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund BurkeThe wrath of the lion is the wisdom of God.
William BlakeLove is too young to know what conscience is.
William ShakespeareIt would be a great reform in politics if wisdom could be made to spread as easily and rapidly as folly.
Winston ChurchillGravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.
ConfuciusThey must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
ConfuciusAs far as I'm concerned I prefer silent vice to ostentatious virtue.
Albert EinsteinAs I was walking among the fires of Hell delighted with the enjoyments of Genius, which to Angels look like torment and insanity, I collected some of their Proverbs thinking that, as the sayings used in a nation mark its character, so the Proverbs of Hell show the nature of Infernal wisdom better than any description of buildings or garments.
William BlakeWisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de BalzacScience investigates religion interprets. Science gives man knowledge which is power religion gives man wisdom which is control.
Martin Luther King, Jr.Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
H. L. MenckenThe devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
William ShakespeareWhere there is charity and wisdom there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
Francis of AssisiWe are drowning in information while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers people able to put together the right information at the right time think critically about it and make important choices wisely.
E. O. WilsonThe fear and anxiety that infect humanity today are the results of this degradation of values, this ignorance of what is of significance and what is not, this want of faith in what the elders and sages have handed down as the wisdom of ages. People prefer what is pleasing to what is beneficial.
Sai BabaTrue wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life ourselves and the world around us.
SocratesI decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry but a kind of instinct or inspiration such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
SocratesCommonsense is the realised sense of proportion.
Mahatma GandhiDoes the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod / Or Love in a golden bowl?
William BlakePoor and content is rich and rich enough.
William ShakespeareThe motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom, to serve all but love only one.
Honore de Balzac