Turn your wounds into wisdom.--Oprah Winfrey
Understanding and wisdom are largely forgotten as we struggle under an avalanche of data and information.--Dee Hock
Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it.--Tristan Gylberd
Useless wisdom is double foolishness.--Icelandic Proverb
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 cannot be wise while in the grip of a deep fear. ... This is why demagogues, when seeking our support, will first cause us to fear and hate, knowing when we are in the grip of a great fear, we will abandon common sense and wisdom, we will forsake the hard-won lessons of time and experience.--Philip Gulley ("Wisdom and Ephipany")
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
Wisdom and joy arise when you learn to exist now rather than in the nonexistent past or future.-—Thich Nhat Hanh
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 comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.--Eckhart Tolle (Stillness Speaks)
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