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Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.
Thomas J. Watson on wisdom

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon on wisdom

The 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 Hawthorne on wisdom

If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit.
Charles Stanley on wisdom

The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it.
Reinhold Niebuhr on wisdom

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides on wisdom

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau on wisdom

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne on wisdom

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne on wisdom

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot on wisdom

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: 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 on wisdom

I have the responsibility of over four million people, and I am in a position to do good, to be able to bring about a new life for my people, and I will continue to move in that direction. It's a burden, but it needs to be done, and you have to have the courage and wisdom to see it through.
King Abdullah II on wisdom

At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly.
Mason Cooley on wisdom

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley on wisdom

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France on wisdom

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron on wisdom

Clearly older women and especially older women who have led an active life or elder women who successfully maneuver through their own family life have so much to teach us about sharing, patience, and wisdom.
Alice Walker on wisdom

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Euripides on wisdom

There's a beauty to wisdom and experience that cannot be faked. It's impossible to be mature without having lived.
Amy Grant on wisdom

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
Theodore Isaac Rubin on wisdom