To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. Herman Melville on wisdom
The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. Ella Wheeler Wilcox on wisdom
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa. M. Scott Peck on wisdom
Come, 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 Congreve on wisdom
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom. Charles Caleb Colton on wisdom
Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. Charlie Parker on wisdom
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything. Milan Kundera on wisdom
True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Akhenaton on wisdom
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. Adlai E. Stevenson on wisdom
Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis. Mary Kay Ash on wisdom
What makes Superman a hero is not that he has power, but that he has the wisdom and the maturity to use the power wisely. From an acting point of view, that's how I approached the part. Christopher Reeve on wisdom
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit. Baltasar Gracian on wisdom
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already. Georg C. Lichtenberg on wisdom
To acquire knowledge, one must study but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant on wisdom
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Zhuangzi on wisdom
Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age. Paul Klee on wisdom
Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet. Robert Orben on wisdom
They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed. William Cowper on wisdom
I believe we have become paralyzed, paralyzed by our desire to be loved. Now our founding fathers had the wisdom to know that social acceptance and popularity were fleeing, and that this country's principles needed to be rooted in strengths greater than the passions and the emotions of the times. Chris Christie on wisdom
There is no pain equal to that which two lovers can inflict on one another. This should be made clear to all who contemplate such a union. The avoidance of this pain is the beginning of wisdom, for it is strong enough to contaminate the rest of our lives. Cyril Connolly on wisdom