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Wisdom

All search is vain, until we begin to perceive that wisdom is within ourselves … then we may know the sun is rising, that the morning is breaking for us.--Vivekananda
Anyone can become angry--that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way--this is not easy.--Aristotle
Applicants for wisdom, do what I have done: Inquire within.--Heraclitus
Before God we are equally wise--and equally foolish.--Albert Einstein
The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names.--Chinese proverb
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.--Samuel Coleridge.
Cultivate the habit of attention and try to gain opportunities to hear wise men and women talk. Indifference and inattention are the two most dangerous monsters that your ever meet. Interest and attention will insure to you an education.--Robert Millikan
Do not ask for fulfillment in all your life, but for patience to accept frustration.
Do not ask for perfection in all you do, but for the wisdom not to repeat mistakes.
Do not ask for more, before saying "Thank You" for what you have already received.--Brenda Short
The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.--Benjamin Franklin
The first key to wisdom is this - constant and frequent questioning … for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth.-- Peter Abelard
The fool wonders, the wise man asks.--Benjamin Disraeli
The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; the wise grows it under his feet.--James Oppenheim
Fools get things mixed up and wise men straighten them out.--Scottish Proverb
For one word a man is often deemed to be wise, and for one word he is often deemed to be foolish. We should be careful indeed what we say.--Confucius
Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.--William Saroyan
He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.--Tryon Edwards
The heart is wiser than the intellect.--Josiah Holland
I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing.--Socrates (Plato's Apology)
I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere to go. My own wisdom, and that of all about me, seemed insufficient for the day.--Abraham Lincoln
I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am most certain of the first time.--Josh Billings
I hold those wise who know how to be happy.--Ninon de Lenclos
I not only use all the brains that I have but all that I can borrow.--Woodrow Wilson
The ignorant work for their own profit; the wise work for the welfare of the world.--Bhagavad-Gita
In seeking Wisdom, the first state is silence, the second listening, the third remembrance, the fourth practicing, the fifth teaching.-- Rabbi Solomon Ibn Gabirol
The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.--Henry David Thoreau
It is only evil and ignorance that have many shapes. Truth and wisdom are one and the same.--Abbot Lee Lisan
It is so simple to be wise. Think of something stupid to say, and don't say it.--Sam Levenson
It's not good for all of our wishes to be fulfilled. Through sickness, we recognize the value of health; through evil, the value of good; through hunger, the value of food; through exertion, the value of rest.--Greek proverb
Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children.--Kahlil Gibran
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.--Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.
If you realize that you have enough, you are truly rich.--Tao Te Ching
Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together.--John A. Morrison
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.--Martin H. Fischer
Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.--Peter Kay
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.--William Cowper ("Winter Walk at Noon" The Task)
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.-- Jimi Hendrix
Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass.-- Japanese Proverb
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action.-- M. Scott Peck
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.--Charles Dickens
A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes he is no longer indispensable.--Richard E. Byrd
My after forty face felt far more comfortable than anything I lived with previously. Self-confidence was a powerful beauty-potion; I looked better because I felt better. Failure and grief as well as success and love had served me well. Finally, I was tapping into that most hard-won of your dews: wisdom.--Nancy Collins
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.--Sandra Carey
Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone's hand and squeeze it, while there's still time.--Dale Dauten
O how sweet it is to enjoy life,
Living in honesty and strength!
And wisdom is sweet,
And freedom.--Buddha
Only in the oasis of silence can we drink deeply from the inner cup of wisdom.--Sue Patton Thoele
Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it.--Frank R. Barry
Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine
People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.--Jean Jacques Rousseau
Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only.--Samuel Smiles
Rules are for the obedience of fools and the guidance of wise men.--Douglas Bader
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.--Immanuel Kant
Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child.--Ron Wild
Silence and reserve will give anyone a reputation for wisdom.--Myrtle Reed (Old Rose and Silver)
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance--that principle is contempt prior to investigation.--Herbert Spencer
There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment.-- Malcolm Hein
There is this difference between happiness and wisdom, that he that thinks himself the happiest man really is so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.--Charles Caleb Colton
These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.--Vernon Cooper
To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.--Marilyn vos Savant
To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.--Akhenaton (fl. 1375 B.C.)
Too many wish to be happy before becoming wise.--Susanne Curchod Necker
The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.--Henry Home
Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it.--Tristan Gylberd
We 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.--Edward O. Wilson
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey no one can take for us or spare us.--Marcel Proust
We judge of man's wisdom by his hope.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.--Samuel Smiles
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits on a hot stove-lid; he will never sit on a hot stove-lid again--and that is well; but also she will never sit on a cold one anymore.--Mark Twain
What is strength without a double share of wisdom?--John Milton (Samson Agonistes)
Where is the Life we have lost in living?
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?--T.S. Eliot
Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.--The Talmud
Who is wise? He who learns from all men. From all my teachers have I gotten understanding.-- Ben Zoma
Wisdom begins at the end.-- Daniel Webster
Wisdom ceases to be wisdom when it becomes too proud to weep, too grave to laugh, and too selfful to seek other than itself.--Kahlil Gibran (Sand and Foam)
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.--Norman Cousins
Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.--Francis Hutcheson (Inquiry into the Original of Our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue)
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.--Tom Wilson
Wisdom is knowing what to do next. Skill is knowing how to do it. Virtue is doing it.--Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.-Unknown (Evangel)
Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.--Bergen Evens
Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.--Robert Gary Lee
Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.--Sid Taylor
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.-- Doug Larson
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.--Charles H. Spurgeon
The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.--Isaac Disraeli (Curiosities of Literature)
The wise adapt themselves to circumstances, as water molds itself to the pitcher.--Chinese Proverb (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe)
Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.--William Arthur Ward
The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.--Ralph Waldo Emerson ("Compensation" Essays: First Series)
The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.--Baltasar Gracian
The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own.--Lao-tzu
The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.--Ralph Waldo Emerson
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.--Jonathan Swift
The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things.--Bertrand Russell
A wise man's question contains half the answer.-- Solomon Ibn Gabirol
Wise men talk because they have something to say fools, because they have to say something.--Plato
The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account.--Richard R. Grant
You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.-- Naguib Mahfouz