Dare to be wise. [ Horace ]

Accumulated wisdom.

Wisdom overcomes fortune. [ Juv ]

Sincerity is true wisdom. [ Tillotson ]

The abridgments of wisdom. [ Joubert ]

Incredulity is not wisdom. [ Spurgeon ]

Kindness is wisdom.
There is none in life
But needs it and may learn. [ Bailey ]

Proverbs are potted wisdom. [ Charles Buxton ]

No one is wise at all times. [ Pliny the Elder ]

Enough words, little wisdom. [ Sallust ]

Wisdom - a man's best friend. [ Gladstone ]

Wisdom is only found in truth. [ Goethe ]

The wise man is seldom prudent. [ Marie Ebner-Eschenbach ]

Better to get wisdom than gold. [ Bible ]

Wisdom goes not always by years. [ Proverb ]

No man is wise enough by himself. [ Plautus ]

Wisdom is the health of the soul. [ Victor Hugo ]

Wisdom is the repose of the mind. [ Lavater ]

Wisdom comes to no one by chance. [ Seneca ]

Whoever is not too wise, is wise. [ Martial ]

A word to the wise is sufficient. [ Terence ]

O music, sphere descended maid,
Friend of pleasure, wisdom's aid. [ Collins ]

The poor man's wisdom is despised. [ South ]

Wisdom is infused into every form. [ Emerson ]

He is wise that is wise to himself. [ Euripides ]

But they whom truth and wisdom lead
Can gather honey from a weed. [ Cowper ]

Body cannot teach wisdom; God only. [ Emerson ]

Wisdom is the conqueror of fortune. [ Juvenal ]

Knowledge descries; wisdom applies. [ Quarles ]

The price of wisdom is above rubies. [ Bible ]

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. [ Dickens ]

Liberty, without wisdom, is license. [ Burke ]

Incredulity is the wisdom of a fool. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Humility is the hall-mark of wisdom. [ Jeremy Collier ]

Silence does not always mean wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. [ Tennyson ]

Teach me my days to number, and apply
My trembling heart to wisdom. [ Young ]

Wisdom rises upon the ruins of folly. [ Proverb ]

For never, never wicked man was wise. [ Homer ]

It is held that sorrow makes us wise. [ Tennyson ]

Justice without wisdom is impossible. [ Froude ]

Wisdom is rare, Lorenzo! wit abounds. [ Young ]

The heart is wiser than the intellect, [ J. G. Holland ]

True wisdom is the price of happiness. [ Young ]

Consideration is the parent of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Your wisdom is consum'd in confidence.
Do not go forth today. [ William Shakespeare ]

Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom. [ Sir Bayle Roche ]

Temporizing is sometimes great wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Nature and wisdom never are at strife. [ Juvenal ]

Caution is the eldest child of wisdom. [ Victor Hugo ]

It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool. [ Proverb ]

The body's wisdom to conceal the mind. [ Young ]

Nature and wisdom always say the same. [ Juvenal ]

All human wisdom, to divine, is folly. [ Sir J. Denham ]

Cunning craft is but the ape of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Mingle a little folly with your wisdom. [ Horace ]

In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare! [ Homer ]

No man can be wise on an empty stomach. [ George Eliot ]

Beauty and wisdom are rarely conjoined. [ Petronius Arbiter ]

He that never thinks can never be wise. [ Johnson ]

Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure,
Pass the days of life's short measure,
From the slow one counsel take,
But a tool of him never make;
Ne'er as friend the swift one know,
Nor the constant one as foe. [ Schiller ]

Arrogance is the obstruction of wisdom. [ Bion ]

Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be. [ Lactantius ]

On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows.
In every rill a sweet instruction flows. [ Young ]

Wisdom is more to be envied than riches. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom not only gets, but, got, retains. [ Quarles ]

To know
That which before us lies in daily life,
Is the prime wisdom. [ Milton ]

Wise men say nothing in dangerous times. [ John Selden ]

Wisdom sometimes walks in clouted shoes. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom in perfection is not for mortals. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it. [ William Shakespeare ]

Be wisely worldly, but not worldly wise. [ Quarles ]

Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

Oh, if there is one thing above the rest
Written in Wisdom - if there is a word
That I would trace as with a pen of fire
Upon the unsullied temper of a child —
If there is anything that keeps the mind
Open to angel visits, and repels
The ministry of ill - It is Love. [ N. P. Willis ]

Who are a little wise the best fools be. [ Donne ]

Wisdom seldom consorts with extravagance. [ Mendemus ]

In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, then wisdom finds a way. [ William Shakespeare ]

In their looks divine
The image of their glorious Maker shone,
Truth, wisdom, sanctitude serene and pure. [ Milton ]

Wisdom sits with children round her knees. [ Wordsworth ]

All foreign wisdom doth amount to this,
To take all that is given, whether wealth,
Or love, or language; nothing comes amiss;
A good digestion turneth all to health. [ Herbert ]

Wisdom is seldom gained without suffering. [ Sir Arthur Helps ]

Fortune, not wisdom, human life doth sway. [ Cicero ]

Half a man's wisdom goes with his courage. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

Lips never err when wisdom keeps the door. [ Delaune ]

A man must become wise at his own expense. [ Montaigne ]

Wisdom is neither inheritance nor legacy . [ Proverb ]

It is great folly to wish only to be wise. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Wisdom adorns riches, and shadows poverty. [ Socrates ]

Wisdom and goodness to the vile seem vile. [ William Shakespeare ]

Silence is wisdom, when speaking is folly. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines.
And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive.
What is she, but the means of happiness?
That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. [ Young ]

Full of wisdom are the ordinations of Fate. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

Good-humor is goodness and wisdom combined. [ Owen Meredith ]

Can gold calm passion or make reason shine?
Can we dig peace, or wisdom, from the mine?
Wisdom to gold prefer; for 'tis much less
To make our fortune, than our happiness. [ Young ]

An ounce of wisdom is worth a pound of wit. [ Proverb ]

Continual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

The wit of one man, and the wisdom of many. [ Lord John Russell's definition of a proverb ]

Socrates
Whom, well inspired, the oracle pronounced,
Wisest of men. [ Milton ]

Wisdom and eloquence are not always united. [ Victor Hugo ]

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. [ Bacon ]

Be wise to-day! 'tis madness to defer;
Next day, the fatal precedent will plead;
Thus on, till wisdom is pushed out of life.
Procrastination is the thief of time. [ Edward Young ]

Riches and favour go before wisdom and art. [ Danish Proverb ]

Wisdom views with an indifferent eye
All finite joys, all blessings born to die. [ Hannah More ]

The ever-burning lamp of accumulated wisdom. [ G. W. Curtis ]

What is it to be wise?
It is but to know how little can be known,
To see all others' faults, and feel our own. [ Pope ]

As we grow in wisdom, we pardon more freely. [ Mme. de Stael ]

Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart
Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. [ Cowper ]

Wisdom don't always speak in Greek and Latin. [ Proverb ]

All delay is hateful, but it produces wisdom. [ Publius Syrus ]

The first sigh of love is the last of wisdom.

A common jeerer may have wit, but not wisdom. [ Proverb ]

All is but lip wisdom which wants experience. [ Sir Philip Sidney ]

The wisest among us is a fool in some things. [ Richardson ]

All is but lip-wisdom, that wants experience. [ Proverb ]

The divine essence itself is love and wisdom. [ Swedenborg ]

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing. [ Socrates ]

It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary. [ Quinault ]

Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one,
Have ofttimes no connection. Knowledge dwells
In heads replete with thoughts of other men;
Wisdom, in minds attentive to their own. [ William Cowper ]

Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest.
A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best. [ George Herbert ]

Both folly and wisdom come upon us with years. [ Proverb ]

Luck, mere luck, may make even madness wisdom. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects,
Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers,
Seizes the right, and holds it to the last. [ Young ]

Modest doubt is called the beacon of the wise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Night is fair virtue's immemorial friend;
The conscious moon, through every distant age.
Has held a lamp to wisdom, and let fall
On contemplation's eye her purging ray. [ Young ]

Experience, next, to thee I owe,
Best guide; not following thee, I had remained
In ignorance; thou open'st wisdom's way.
And giv'st access, though secret she retire. [ Milton ]

Wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead. [ Proverb ]

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! [ Homer ]

The two principal things are wisdom and health. [ Proverb ]

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. [ William Cowper ]

Man thinks
Brutes have no wisdom, since they know not his:
Can we divine their world? [ George Eliot ]

Wisdom's path is steep; but, gained the height,
The Muse's gifts will fill you with delight. [ Onestes ]

That is not wit which consists not with wisdom. [ South ]

Wisdom deprives even poverty of half its power. [ H. W. Shaw ]

Books should to one of these four ends conduce,
For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. [ Sir John Denham ]

The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort.
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give truth a lustre and make wisdom smile. [ Cowper ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. [ Bible ]

He is oft the wisest man who is not wise at all. [ Wordsworth ]

As you are old and reverend, you should be wise. [ William Shakespeare ]

Though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems. [ Milton ]

So wise, so young, they say, do never live long. [ William Shakespeare ]

In the husband, wisdom; in the wife, gentleness. [ Proverb ]

Give tribute, but not oblation, to human wisdom. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Grey hairs are wisdom - if you hold your tongue;
Speak - and they are but hairs, as in the young. [ Philo ]

Wisdom hath one foot on land and another on sea. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Truth may lie in laughter, and wisdom in a jest. [ Dr. W. Smith ]

It is fortune, not wisdom, that rules man's life. [ Cicero ]

That life is long which answers life's great end;
The tree that bears no fruit deserves no name;
The man of wisdom is the man of years. [ Edward Young ]

Modern wisdom plucks me from overcredulous haste. [ William Shakespeare ]

Beauty is the index of a larger fact than wisdom. [ O. W. Holmes ]

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body. [ De Saint-Real ]

The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

All our wisdom consists of but servile prejudices. [ J. J. Rousseau ]

Wisdom is not attained with years, but by ability. [ Plaut ]

How is night's sable mantle labored over.
How richly wrought with attributes divine!
What wisdom shines! what love! this midnight pomp.
This gorgeous arch, with golden worlds inlaid!
Built with divine ambition. [ Young ]

The end of wisdom is consultation and deliberation. [ Demosthenes ]

I think the first wisdom is to restrain the tongue. [ Cato ]

The amity which wisdom unites not, folly will untie. [ Proverb ]

A drop of good fortune rather than a cask of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

A proverb is the wit of one, and the wisdom of many. [ Lord John Russell ]

To affect folly on an occasion is consummate wisdom.

From hearing comes wisdom, from speaking repentance. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom never contemplates what will make a happy man. [ Aristotle ]

Nature and wisdom are not, but should be, companions. [ Smollett ]

Wisdom is a good purchase, though we pay dear for it. [ Proverb ]

Folly as well as wisdom is justified by its children. [ Proverb ]

Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. [ Montaigne ]

Knowledge is the parent of love; wisdom, love itself. [ J. C. and A. W. Hare ]

Who then is free? The wise man who can govern himself. [ Horace ]

Cheerfulness is an offshoot of goodness and of wisdom. [ Bovee ]

No tyrant can take from you your knowledge and wisdom. [ Proverb ]

It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Thank God, men that are greatly guilty are never wise. [ Burke ]

Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure
Which is useful to them to praise which deceives them. [ La Rochefoucauld ]

Be wise; Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. [ Massinger ]

They are the heritage that glorious minds
Bequeath unto the world! — a glittering store
Of gems, more precious far than those he finds
Who searches miser's hidden treasures over.
They are the light, the guiding star of youth.
Leading his spirit to the realms of thought,
Pointing the way to Virtue, Knowledge, Truth,
And teaching lessons, with deep wisdom fraught.
They cast strange beauty round our earthly dreams,
And mystic brightness over our daily lot;
They lead the soul afar to fairy scenes,
Where the world's under visions enter not;
They're deathless and immortal — ages pass away,
Yet still they speak, instruct, inspire, amidst decay! [ Emeline S. Smith ]

The wisdom of one generation will be folly in the next. [ Priestley ]

Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom. [ George William Curtis ]

Wisdom consists not so much in seeing as in foreseeing. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Certainly the greatest scholars are not the wisest men. [ Regnier ]

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom, but it preserves it. [ Confucius ]

Amnesty, that noble word, the genuine dictate of wisdom. [ Aeschines ]

The amity that wisdom knits not, folly may easily untie. [ William Shakespeare ]

Full oft we see cold wisdom waiting on superfluous folly. [ Shakespeare ]

The most exquisite folly is made of wisdom too fine spun. [ Proverb ]

The glory and increase of wisdom stands in exercising it. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

Our wisdom is no less at fortune's mercy than our wealth. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool. [ Tennyson ]

Wit is to be met with everywhere, but wisdom is a rarity. [ Proverb ]

Experience is the father of Wisdom, and Memory the mother. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. [ Wordsworth ]

Genuine wit implies no small amount of wisdom and culture. [ Moses Harvey ]

A man's wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. [ Sir W. Temple ]

It is a great point of wisdom to find out one's own folly. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom! I bless thy gentle sway, and ever, ever will obey. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

The bearing and the training of a child is woman's wisdom. [ Tennyson ]

When an ass climbs a ladder, you may find wisdom in women. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom alone is a science of other sciences and of itself. [ Plato ]

The most manifest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. [ Montaigne ]

Potted wisdom: Short sentences drawn from long experiences. [ Cervantes ]

Wisdom resteth in the heart of him that hath understanding. [ Bible ]

Wisdom no more consists in science than happiness in wealth. [ De Boufflers ]

Craft borders upon knavery; wisdom never uses, nor wants it. [ Proverb ]

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness. [ Montaigne ]

What in me is dark, Illumine, what is low, raise and support. [ Milton ]

Man's chief wisdom consists in being sensible of his follies. [ Rochefoucauld ]

Wit without wisdom, cuts other men's meat and its own fingers. [ Proverb ]

It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others. [ Montaigne ]

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. [ Tupper ]

Few and precious are the words which the lips of Wisdom utter,
To what shall their rarity be likened?
What price shall count their worth?
Perfect and much to be desired, and giving joy with riches,
No lovely thing on earth can picture all their beauty. [ Tupper ]

Wisdom and love do not take up their abode in the same breast. [ Emile Souvestre ]

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. [ La Roche ]

Wit and wisdom are like the seven stars, seldom seen together. [ Proverb ]

The only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom. [ James Alfred Langford ]

It is altogether vain to learn wisdom, and yet live foolishly. [ Proverb ]

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. [ William Hazlitt ]

Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom. [ Bible ]

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you. [ Job, in Bible ]

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so. [ Boileau ]

As much by Mars as by Minerva; as much by courage as by wisdom. [ Proverb ]

Suspicion is as great an enemy to wisdom as too much credulity. [ Thomas Fuller ]

There is gravity in wisdom, but no particular wisdom in gravity. [ H. W. Shaw ]

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
The courage to change the things I can,
And the wisdom to know the difference. [ Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer ]

Philosophy, if rightly defined, is naught but the love of wisdom. [ Cicero ]

He who imparts wisdom to another purifies and exalts his own mind. [ Proverb ]

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams. [ Douglas Jerrold ]

By wisdom wealth is wen; but riches purchased wisdom yet for none. [ Bayard Taylor ]

Every man's follies are the caricature resemblances of his wisdom. [ John Sterling ]

Misfortune cannot endure wisdom, but wisdom can endure misfortune. [ Bodenstedt ]

He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God. [ Epictetus ]

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days. [ Robert Hall ]

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. [ Plutarch ]

Wisdom itself is not ashamed to be sprightly and gay upon occasion. [ Proverb ]

He gains wisdom in a happy way who gains it by another's experience. [ Plautus ]

Common sense, in an uncommon degree, is what the world calls wisdom. [ Coleridge ]

The stream from wisdom's well, which God supplies, is inexhaustible. [ Bayard Taylor ]

With wisdom fraught; not such as books, but such as practice taught. [ Waller ]

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. [ Confucius ]

When passion enters at the fore-gate, wisdom goes out of the postern. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is everlasting; early or late we apprehend her still the same. [ Frederic W. H. Myers ]

He who has once been very foolish will at no other time be very wise. [ Montaigne ]

There occur cases in human life when it is wisdom not to be too wise. [ Friedrich Schiller ]

It is more wisdom sometimes to dissemble wrongs, than to revenge them. [ Proverb ]

Wisdom is the talent of buying virtuous pleasures at the cheapest rate. [ Fielding ]

Wisdom without innocence is knavery, innocence without wisdom is folly. [ Proverb ]

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. [ Burke ]

Rich men without wisdom and learning are but sheep with golden fleeces. [ Solon ]

Youth is not the era of wisdom; let us therefore have due consideration. [ Rivarol ]

The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs, which are brief and pithy. [ William Penn ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? Let wisdom make thee a good gamester. [ Quarles ]

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly. [ Holmes ]

A man cannot learn to be wise any more than he can learn to be handsome. [ H. W. Shaw ]

True greatness is sovereign wisdom. We are never deceived by our virtues. [ Lamartine ]

So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. [ Bible ]

What doth better become wisdom than to discern what is worthy the living. [ Sir P. Sidney ]

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. [ Spurgeon ]

A man of virtue, judgment, and prudence speaks not until there is silence. [ Saadi ]

I would have you wise unto that which is good, and simple concerning evil. [ Bible ]

In this sullen apathy neither true wisdom nor true happiness can be found. [ Hume ]

Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. [ Goldsmith ]

Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world. [ Oxenstiern ]

To some purpose is that man wise who gains his wisdom at another's expense. [ Plautus ]

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

He is well onward in the way of wisdom who can bear reproof, and mend by it. [ Proverb ]

It is a little learning, and but a little, which makes men conclude hastily. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

You read of but one wise man; and all that he knew was that he knew nothing. [ Congreve ]

It is wit to pick a lock and steal a horse, but it is wisdom to let it alone. [ Proverb ]

Buffoonery and scurrility are the corruption of wit, as knavery is of wisdom. [ Proverb ]

The weak have remedies, the wise have joys: superior wisdom is superior bliss. [ Young ]

Go, wiser thou! and in thy scale of sense weigh thy opinion against Providence. [ Pope ]

Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]

The wisdom of women comes to them by inspiration, their folly by premeditation. [ Dumas, Pere ]

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. [ Isaac Disraeli ]

All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the people. [ James A. Garfield ]

We become wiser by adversity; prosperity destroys our appreciation of the right. [ Seneca ]

There is no greater wisdom than well to time the beginning and outsets of things. [ Bacon ]

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all and love but one. [ Balzac ]

Wisdom that is hid, and treasure that is hoarded up, what profit is in them both? [ Ecclus ]

In much wisdom is much grief, and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. [ Bible ]

The inexhaustible talk that was the flow of a golden sea of eloquence and wisdom. [ William Winter ]

Aphorisms are portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. [ W. R. Alger ]

Accomplishments have taken virtue's place, and wisdom falls before exterior grace. [ Cowper ]

There is no mortal truly wise and restless at once; wisdom is the repose of minds. [ Lavater ]

Beauty is such a fleeting blossom, how can wisdom rely upon its momentary delight? [ Seneca ]

Wit and wisdom differ; wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is bringing about ends. [ Selden ]

Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. [ Cicero ]

History should be to the political economist a wellspring of experience and wisdom. [ Gibbon ]

The higher the wisdom, the closer its neighbourhood and kinship with mere insanity. [ Carlyle ]

Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee. [ Young ]

Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why. [ Lavater ]

'Tis long ere time can mitigate your grief; To wisdom fly, she quickly brings relief. [ Grotius ]

Don't contend with words against wordy people; speech is given to all, wisdom to few. [ Cato ]

A justice with grave justices shall sit; He praise their wisdom, they admire his wit. [ Gay ]

True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. [ Humphreys ]

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living. [ Carlyle ]

There are more fools than sages; and among the sages, there is more folly than wisdom. [ Chamfort ]

Wisdom may be the ultimate arbiter, but is seldom the immediate agent in human affairs. [ Sir J. Stephen ]

Anger is blood, poured and perplexed into froth; but malice is the wisdom of our wrath. [ Sir W. Davenant ]

True fortitude is seen in great exploits, that justice warrants and that wisdom guides. [ Addison ]

If wisdom was to cease throughout the world, no one would suspect himself of ignorance. [ Saadi ]

Right is more beautiful than private affection, and is compatible with universal wisdom. [ Ralph Waldo Emerson ]

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living which are to be desired when dying. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

When wealthy, show thy wisdom not to be to wealth a servant, but make wealth serve thee. [ Sir J. Denham ]

All that the wisdom of the proud can teach is to be stubborn or sullen under misfortune. [ Goldsmith ]

Preceptive wisdom that has not been vivified by life has in itself no affinity for life. [ J. G. Holland ]

You will cast away your cards and dice when you find the sweetness of youthful learning. [ Richard Baxter ]

This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, and wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars. [ Mrs. Barbauld ]

Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test, and he's of men most wise who bears them best. [ Cumberland ]

In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom. [ Samuel Smiles ]

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity, that will not forsake us. [ George Eliot ]

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, wealth may seek us; but wisdom must be sought. [ Young ]

It is the ordinary way of the world to keep Folly at the helm, and Wisdom under the hatches. [ Proverb ]

The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer-bought. [ Hosea Ballou ]

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act. [ Ludwig Tieck ]

The tongue of a fool is the key of his counsel, which, in a wise man, wisdom hath in keeping. [ Socrates ]

Wisdom and virtue are the greatest beauty, but it is an advantage to a diamond to be well set. [ Matthew Henry ]

Well, God give them wisdom that have it; and those that are fools, let them use their talents. [ William Shakespeare ]

Much of this world's wisdom is still acquired by necromancy - by consulting the oracular dead. [ Hare ]

Clear-sighted reason, wisdom's judgment leads; and sense, her vassal, in her footsteps treads. [ Sir J. Denham ]

It is not enough plagues, wars, and famine rise to lash our crimes, but must our wives be wise? [ Young ]

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. [ Bishop Berkeley ]

Wisdom is neither gold, nor silver, nor fame, nor wealth, nor health, nor strength, nor beauty. [ Plutarch ]

The words of a man's mouth are as deep waters, and the well-spring of wisdom as a flowing brook. [ Bible ]

We ought not to judge of men's merits by their qualifications, but by the use they make of them. [ Charron ]

The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom: and the knowledge of the holy is understanding. [ Bible ]

Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom-box. [ Huxley ]

In the common run of mankind, for one that is wise and good you find ten of a contrary character. [ Addison ]

When a man seems to be wise, it is merely that his follies are proportionate to his age and fortune. [ Rochefoucauld ]

The first point of wisdom is to discern that which is false; the second, to know that which is true. [ Lactantius ]

Be it mine to draw from wisdom's fount, pure as it flows, that calm of soul which virtue only knows. [ Eschylus ]

Nothing is so contemptible as that affectation of wisdom, which some display, by universal incredulity. [ Goldsmith ]

The foolishest book is a kind of leaky boat on a sea of wisdom; some of the wisdom will get in, anyhow. [ Oliver Wendell Holmes ]

Studies teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation. [ Bacon ]

Greece, so much praised for her wisdom, never produced but seven wise men: judge of the number of fools! [ Grecourt ]

To one it is the mighty heavenly goddess; to another it is an excellent cow that furnishes him with milk. [ Schiller ]

Were wisdom to be sold, she would give no price; every man is satisfied with the share he has from nature. [ Henry Home ]

Wit, without wisdom, is salt without meat; and that is but a comfortless dish to set a hungry man down to. [ Bishop Horne ]

He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which by has. [ Epictetus ]

No evil is felt till it comes, and when it comes no counsel helps. Wisdom is always too early and too late. [ Rückert ]

Wisdom is the olive that springeth from the heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. [ Grymestone ]

Wisdom is not found with those who dwell at their ease; rather nature, when she adds brain, adds difficulty. [ Emerson ]

The wise man can dispense with the favour of the mighty, but not the mighty man with the wisdom of the wise. [ Bodenstedt ]

Pleasure has its time; so, too, has wisdom. Make love in thy youth, and in old age, attend to thy salvation. [ Voltaire ]

As much wisdom may be expended on a private economy as on an empire, and as much wisdom may be drawn from it. [ Emerson ]

As the first order of wisdom is to know thyself, so the first order of charity is to be sufficient for thyself. [ John Ruskin ]

Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. [ Hosea Ballou ]

Wisdom consists not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. [ Terence ]

Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man. [ Carlyle ]

Not by constraint or severity shall you have access to true wisdom, but by abandonment and childlike mirthfulness. [ Thoreau ]

Scripture says, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of the Lord. I say, The beginning of wisdom is the fear of man. [ Chamfort ]

The more accurately we search into the human mind, the stronger traces we everywhere find of His wisdom who made it. [ Burke ]

The mind profits by the wreck of every passion, and we may measure our road to wisdom by the sorrow we have undergone. [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

Of all the authorities to which men can be called to submit, the wisdom of our ancestors is the most whimsically absurd. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

May I deem the wise man rich, and may I have such a portion of gold as none but a prudent man can either bear or employ! [ Plato ]

To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speaks the truth. [ Hazlitt ]

Lessons of wisdom have never such power over us as when they are wrought into the heart through the groundwork of a story. [ Sterne ]

Be wise today; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life. [ Young ]

I would fain coin wisdom - mould it, I mean, into maxims, proverbs, sentences, that can easily be retained and transmitted. [ Joubert ]

Were wisdom given me with this reservation, that I should keep it shut up within myself and not impart it, I would spurn it. [ Seneca ]

Though you had the wisdom of Newton or the wit of Swift, garrulousness would lower you in the eyes of your fellow-creatures. [ Burns ]

The highest conceptions of the sages, who, in order to arrive at them, had to live many days, have become the milk for babes. [ Ballanche ]

The fool is willing to pay for anything but wisdom. No man buys that of which he supposes himself to have an abundance already. [ Simms ]

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful, ever-living agent. [ Newton ]

Talk not to me of the wisdom of women, - I know my own sex well; the wisest of us all are but little less foolish than the rest. [ Mary, Queen of Scots ]

Human wisdom is the aggregate of all human experience, constantly accumulating and selecting and reorganizing its own materials. [ Judge Joseph Story ]

No tongue can tell the joy of a pious mother, when her child is converted or turned from the way of folly to that of true wisdom. [ Mrs. Willard ]

The wise man is but a clever infant, spelling letters from a hieroglyphical prophetic book, the lexicon of which lies in eternity. [ T. Carlyle ]

Proverbs were anterior to books, and formed the wisdom of the vulgar, and in the earliest ages were the unwritten laws of morality. [ Disraeli ]

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them. [ Colton ]

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]

If thou kiss Wisdom's cheek and make her thine, she will breathe into thy lips divinity, and thou, like Phoebus, shalt speak oracle. [ Decker ]

If wisdom were conferred with this proviso, that I must keep it to myself and not communicate it to others, I would have none of it. [ Seneca ]

Short, isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts for the regulation of human conduct. [ Bishop Warburton ]

In strictness of language there is a difference between knowledge and wisdom; wisdom always supposing action and action directed by it. [ Paley ]

These are the signs of a wise man: to reprove nobody, to praise nobody, to blame nobody, nor even to speak of himself or his own merits. [ Epictetus ]

No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man. [ Selden ]

Some men are counted wise from the cunning manner in which they hide their ignorance. In what little they do know such men play the pedant. [ A. Ricard ]

'Tis only from the belief of the goodness and wisdom of a Supreme Being that our calamities can be borne in that manner which becomes a man. [ Mackenzie ]

Knowledge is the treasure of the mind, but discretion is the key to it, without which it is useless. The practical part of wisdom is the best. [ Owen Feltham ]

The god, O men, seems to me to be really wise; and by his oracle to mean this, that the wisdom of this world is foolishness and of none effect. [ Plato ]

It may serve as a comfort to us in all our calamities and afflictions that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss. [ L'Estrange ]

We show wisdom by a decent conformity to social etiquette: it is excess of neatness or display that creates dandyism in men, and coquetry in women. [ Robert Adam ]

Wisdom consists in rising superior both to madness and to commonsense, and in lending one's self to the universal delusion without becoming its dupe. [ Amiel ]

The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene. [ Montaigne ]

There is something irresistibly pleasing in the conversation of a fine woman; even though her tongue be silent, the eloquence of her eyes teach wisdom. [ Goldsmith ]

Be still, then, thou uneasy mortal; know that God is unerringly wise; and be assured that, amidst the greatest multiplicity of beings, He does not overlook thee. [ James Hervey ]

He that loves reading has everything within his reach. He has but to desire, and he may possess himself of every species of wisdom to judge and power to perform. [ William Godwin ]

Exploding many things under the name of trifles is a very false proof either of wisdom or magnanimity, and a great check to virtuous actions with regard to fame. [ Swift ]

Wisdom and understanding are synonymous words; they consist of two propositions, which are not distinct in sense, but one and the same thing variously expressed. [ Tillotson ]

As whole caravans may light their lamps from one candle without exhausting it, so myriads of tribes may gain wisdom from the great Book without impoverishing it. [ Rabbi Ben Azai ]

The two chief things that give a man reputation in counsel, are the opinion of his honesty, and the opinion of his wisdom; the authority of those two will persuade. [ Ben Jonson ]

A wise man will always be a Christian, because the perfection of wisdom is to know where lies tranquillity of mind and how to attain it, which Christianity teaches. [ Landor ]

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words. [ South ]

By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is the noblest; second, by imitation, which is the easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest. [ Confucius ]

There is this 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. [ Bacon ]

We are in hot haste to set the world right and to order all affairs; the Lord hath the leisure of conscious power and unerring wisdom, and it will be well for us to learn to wait. [ Spurgeon ]

The sea does not contain all the pearls, the earth does not enclose all the treasures, and the flintstone does not inclose all the diamonds, since the head of man encloses wisdom. [ Saadi ]

The churchyard is the market-place where all things are rated at their true value, and those who are approaching it talk of the world and its vanities with a wisdom unknown before. [ Baxter ]

Wisdom sits alone, topmost in heaven: she is its light, its God; and in the heart of man she sits as high, though groveling minds forget her oftentimes, seeing but this world's idols. [ N. P. Willis ]

The proverbial wisdom of the populace in the street, on the roads, and in the markets instructs the ear of him who studies man more fully than a thousand rules ostentatiously displayed. [ Lavater ]

We are not to be astonished that the wise walk more slowly in their road to virtue than fools in their passage to vice; since passion drags us along, while wisdom only points out the way. [ Confucius ]

No one has found out how to soothe with music and sweet symphony those bitter pangs by which death and sad misfortunes destroy families; and yet to assuage such griefs by music were wisdom. [ Euripides ]

Wisdom consisteth not in knowing many things, nor even in knowing them thoroughly; but in choosing and in following what conduces the most certainly to our lasting happiness and true glory. [ Landor ]

If there be one thing on earth which is truly admirable, it is to see God's wisdom blessing an inferiority of natural powers, where they have been honestly, truly, and zealously cultivated. [ Dr. Arnold ]

We are always more disposed to laugh at nonsense than at genuine wit; because the nonsense is more agreeable to us, being more conformable to our own natures: fools love folly, and wise men wisdom. [ Marguerite de Valois ]

A friend to everybody is often a friend to nobody, or else in his simplicity he robs his family to help strangers, and becomes brother to a beggar. There is wisdom in generosity, as in everything else. [ Spurgeon ]

The heart will commonly govern the head, and it is certain that any strong passion, set the wrong way, will soon infatuate even the wisest of men, therefore the first part of wisdom is to watch the affections. [ Dr. Waterland ]

The examples of maternal influences are countless; Solomon himself records the words of wisdom that fell from a mother's lips, and Timothy was taught the Scriptures from a child by his grandmother and his mother. [ A. Ritchie ]

Learn, O student, the true wisdom. See yon bush aflame with roses, like the burning bush of Moses. Listen, and thou shalt hear, if thy soul be not deaf, how from out it, soft and clear, speaks to thee the Lord Almighty. [ Hafiz ]

What, after all, is heaven, but a transition from dim guesses and blind struggling with a mysterious and adverse fate to the fullness of all wisdom - from ignorance, in a word, to knowledge, but knowledge of what order? [ Edward Bulwer-Lytton ]

It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter it is deceptive. [ Whately ]

For knowledge to become wisdom, and for the soul to grow, the soul must be rooted in God: and it is through prayer that there comes to us that which is the strength of our strength, and the virtue of our virtue, the Holy Spirit. [ William Mountford ]

Try for yourselves what you can read in half-an-hour, ... and consider what treasures you might have laid by at the end of the year; and what happiness, fortitude and wisdom they would have given you during all the days of your life. [ John Morley ]

Thinkers who trace systems of philosophy are merely impelled by an innate instinct; they know that their precepts, however excellent, are not suitable to the majority: the wisdom may be admired by many, but few will follow the principles. [ De Finod ]

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while. [ Emerson ]

Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquillity and peace. [ Cicero ]

Hath fortune dealt thee ill cards? let wisdom make thee a good gamester. In a fair gale, every fool may sail, but wise behavior in a storm commends the wisdom of a pilot; to bear adversity with an equal mind is both the sign and glory of a brave spirit. [ Quarles ]

The true greatness and the true happiness of a country consist in wisdom; in that enlarged and comprehensive wisdom which includes education, knowledge, religion, virtue, freedom, with every influence which advances and every institution which supports them. [ Henry Giles ]

The tending of flowers has ever appeared to me a fitting care for the young and beautiful; they then dwell, as it were, among their own emblems, and many a voice of wisdom breathes on their ear from those brief blossoms, to which they apportion the dew and the sunbeam. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Socrates was pronounced by the oracle of Delphos to be the wisest man in Greece, which he would turn from himself ironically, saying there could be nothing in him to verify the oracle, except this, that he was not wise and knew it, and others were not wise and knew it not. [ Bacon ]

Wit throws a single ray, separated from the rest, - red, yellow, blue, or any intermediate shade, - upon an object; never white light; that is the province of wisdom. We get beautiful effects from wit, - all the prismatic colors, - but never the object as it is in fair daylight. [ Holmes ]

To act with commonsense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know; and the best philosophy, to do one's duties, take the world as it comes, submit respectfully to one's lot, bless the goodness that has given us so much happiness with it whatever it is, and despise affectation. [ Horace Walpole ]

No one was ever the better for advice: in general, what we called giving advice was properly taking an occasion to show our own wisdom at another's expense; and to receive advice was little better than tamely to afford another the occasion of raising himself a character from our defects. [ Lord Shaftesbury ]

He is wise who can instruct us and assist us in the business of daily virtuous living; he who trains us to see old truth under academic formularies may be wise or not, as it chances, but we love to see wisdom in unpretending forms, to recognise her royal features under a week-day vesture. [ Carlyle ]

To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. It is to solve some of the problems of life, not only theoretically, but practically. [ Thoreau ]

Every moment instructs, and every object; for wisdom is infused into every form. It has been poured into us as blood; it convulsed us as pain; it slid into us as pleasure; it enveloped us in dull, melancholy days, or in days of cheerful labor; we did not guess its essence until after long time. [ Emerson ]

Extreme old age is childhood; extreme wisdom is ignorance, for so it may be called, since the man whom the oracle pronounced the wisest of men professed that he knew nothing; yea, push a coward to the extreme and he will show courage; oppress a man to the last, and he will rise above oppression. [ J. Beaumont ]

Addison acknowledged that he would rather inform than divert his reader; but he recollected that a man must be familiar with wisdom before he willingly enters on Seneca and Epictetus. Fiction allures him to the severe task by a gayer preface. Embellished truths are the illuminated alphabet of larger children. [ Willmott ]

From numberless books the fluttering reader, idle and inconstant, bears away the bloom that only clings to the outer leaf; but genius has its nectaries, delicate glands, and secrecies of sweetness, and upon these the thoughtful mind must settle in its labor, before the choice perfume of fancy and wisdom is drawn forth. [ Willmott ]

Infinity is the retirement in which perfect love and wisdom only dwell with God. In infinity and eternity the skeptic sees an abyss in which all is lost. I see in them the residence of Almighty power, in which my reason and my wishes find equally a firm support. Here, holding by the pillars of heaven, I exist - I stand fast. [ Miller ]

The works of nature and the works of revelation display religion to mankind in characters so large and visible that those who are not quite blind may in them see and read the first principles and most necessary parts of it, and from thence penetrate into those infinite depths filled with the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. [ Locke ]

Facts are to the mind the same thing as food to the body. On the due digestion of facts depends the strength and wisdom of the one, just as vigour and health depend on the other. The wisest in council, the ablest in debate, and the most agreeable in the commerce of life, is that man who has assimilated to his understanding the greatest number of facts. [ Burke ]

A pure mind in a chaste body is the mother of wisdom and deliberation, sober counsels and ingenuous actions, open deportment and sweet carriage, sincere principles and unprejudicate understanding, love of God and selfdenial, peace and confidence, holy prayers and spiritual comfort, and a pleasure of spirit infinitely greater than the sottish pleasure of unchastity. [ Jeremy Taylor ]

It is not every man that can afford to wear a shabby coat; and worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them, - for every one sees how we dress, but none see how we live, except we choose to let them. But the truly great are, by universal suffrage, exempted from these trammels, and may live or dress as they please. [ Colton ]

We see a world of pains taken and the best years of life spent in collecting a set of thoughts in a college for the conduct of life, and after all the man so qualified shall hesitate in his speech to a good suit of clothes, and want commonsense before an agreeable woman. Hence it is that wisdom, valour, justice and learning cannot keep a man in countenance that is possessed with these excellencies, if he wants that inferior art of life and behaviour called good-breeding. [ Steele ]

Consider what you have in the smallest chosen library. A company of the wisest and wittiest men that could be picked out of all civil countries, in a thousand years, have set in best order the results of their learning and wisdom. The men themselves were hid and inaccessible, solitary, impatient of interruption, fenced by etiquette; but the thought which they did not uncover to their bosom friend is here written out in transparent words to us, the strangers of another age. [ Emerson ]

Whatever we may say against such collections which present authors in a disjointed form, they nevertheless bring about many excellent results. We are not always so composed, so full of wisdom, that we are able to take in at once the whole scope of a work according to its merits. Do we not mark in a book passages which seem, to have a direct reference to ourselves? Young people especially, who have failed in acquiring a complete cultivation of the mind, are roused in a praiseworthy way by brilliant quotations." [ Goethe ]

Wisdom is a fox who, after long hunting, will at last cost you the pains to dig out; it is a cheese, which, by how much the richer, has the thicker, the homlier, and the coarser coat; and whereof to a judicious palate, the maggots are best. It is a sack posset, wherein the deeper you go, you'll find it the sweeter. Wisdom is a hen, whose cackling we must value and consider, because it is attended with an egg. But lastly, it is a nut, which, unless you choose with judgment, may cost you a tooth, and pay you with nothing but a worm. [ Swift ]

What is more pleasing than the sight of the affectionate mother, watching with untiring devotion over her helpless child? Who can contemplate her devotion to the object of her love, enduring his waywardness, forgiving his faults, relieving his pains, and enjojdng his pleasures; pouring incessantly into his opening soul the mature wisdom of her counsels, and following him with her untiring prayers, as he finally goes forth to battle with the temptations and trials of life, without feeling that the true mother's heart is the noblest of heaven's gifts? [ H. Winslow ]

In the matter of diet - which is another main thing - I have been persistently strict in sticking to the things which didn't agree with me until one or the other of us got the best of it. Until lately I got the best of it myself. But last spring I stopped frolicking with mince-pie after midnight; up to then I had always believed it wasn't loaded. For thirty years I have taken coffee and bread at eight in the morning, and no bite nor sup until seven-thirty in the evening. Eleven hours. That is all right for me, and is wholesome, because I have never had a headache in my life, but headachy people would not reach seventy comfortably by that road, and they would be foolish to try it. And I wish to urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - that if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. When they take off the Pullman and retire you to the rancid smoker, put on your things, count your checks, and get out at the first way station where there's a cemetery. [ Mark Twain, Seventieth Birthday speech ]