1. A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. –William Temple
2. A short saying often contains much wisdom. –Sophocles
3. A clever person cannot be clever in every affair.
4. A genius is a man who does unique things of which nobody would expect him to be capable.
-- E. V. Lucas
5. A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel.
6. A man’s wisdom is the source of pleasure. – Boccaccio
7. A still tongue makes a wise head.
8. A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be led by the nose. –Mark Twain
9. A well-bred person can wisely treat the criticism.
10. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon
11. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of
wisdom.
—Welsh Proverb
12. A word to the wise is enough.
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16. 17. A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.
--Motesquieu
A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.
--Jonathan Swift
A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his -- African Proverb
A wise man hears one word and understand two.
--Yiddish Proverb
A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
18. A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.
--African Proverb
19. A wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything.
-- C. Simmons
20. A wise man never attempts impossibilities.
-- Philip Massinger
21. As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise person remains unaffected by praise or censure. --- Buddha
22. A wise man’s question contains half the answer. – Ibn Gabirol
23. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
-- Michel de Montaigne
24. A wise man thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he thinks.
25. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. – Francis Bacon
26. All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope.
-- Alexandre Dumas
27. All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. –Philip Sidney
28. Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. – Horace
29. Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. – Joseph Conrad
30. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.
31. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. – Philip Chesterfield
32. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. – Edgar Howe
33. Brevity is the soul of wit.
34. Clever men are the tools with which bad men work. –William Hazlitt
35. Cato used to assert that wise men profited more by fools, than fools by wise men; for that wise men avoided the faults of fools, examples of wise men. –Plutarch
36. Cunning…is but the low mimic of wisdom. –Henry Bolingbroke
37. Cleverness is better than force. –Rabelais
38. Cleverness is serviceable for everything, sufficient for nothing.
39. Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
-- Samuel Lover
40. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. –Samuel Coleridge
41. Deliberate often—decide once. –Latin Proverb
42. Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.—Turkish Proverb
43. Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.—Greek Proverb
44. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.
--G. C. Lichtenberg
45. Experience is the fool’s master, reason the wise man’s. –Euripides
46. Experience is the mother of wisdom.
47. Experience makes even fools wise.—Saint Augustine
48. Folly is most incurable disease. –Khalil Gibran
49. Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous. –Goethe
50. Fools have their hearts in their mouths, but wise men keep their mouths in their hearts.
51. From listening comes wisdom, and from speaking repentance. –Italian Proverb
52. From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. –Publius Syrus
53. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. –Thomas Edison
54. Genius only means hard-working all one’s life. –Mendeleev
55. Get rid of petty cleverness and great wisdom will come out. –Zhuang Zhou
56. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. –Greek Proverb
57. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.—James Gibbons Huneker
58. He’s a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. –Benjamin Franklin
59. He who can understand other person’s capability is a capable man.
60. He knows useful things, not many things, is wise.
61. He is the wisest man who does not think himself so.
62. He who is virtuous is wise; and he who is wise is good; and he who is good is happy. –Boethius
63. He who knows others is learned, and he who knows himself is wise. –Lao Zi
64. He who recognizes his folly is on the road to wisdom.
65. How prone to doubt, how caution is the wise. –Homer
66. Ignorance is the mother of superstition.—Honore de Balzac
67. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men.
–William Shakespeare
68. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. –Thomas Carlyle
69. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.—Abraham Lincoln
70. I know no such things as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence. –Hogarth
71. I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. –Anatole France
72. If you have wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
73. If one talks so much that it makes people unable to realize what he really means, he must be foolish man.
74. It is easy to be wiser after the event. –Proverb
75. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.—Arthur Schopenhauer
76. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. –George Santayana
77. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make
them good. –Bertolt Brecht
78. It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. –Roger Ascham
79. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. –Henry Thoreau
80. It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see. –Winston Churchill
81. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. –Francois de la Rochefoucauld
82. It is better to speak wisdom foolishly, like the saints, rather than to speak folly wisely, like the dons. –Gilbert Chesterton
83. It is easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. –Gottfried Leibniz
84. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. –Anatole France
85. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. –Cicero
86. It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. –Oscar Wilde
87. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.—Oliver Holmes
88. It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. –Charles Peguy
89. 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. –Sir Roger L’Estrange
90. It things were to be done twice, all would be wise.
91. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. –Alfred Tennyson
92. Knowledge begins with learning; understanding, with experience; wisdom, with reflection: all of which the brain integrates into an organic whole. He who possesses all three is a perfect man. –An Arabian Nights Confection
93. Knowledge without wisdom is double folly. –Balthasar Gracian
94. Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. –John Morrison
95. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. –William Cowper
96. Knowledge makes an erudite scholar, but only wisdom can make a wise man. –Michel de Montaigne
97. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. –Cicero
98. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. –Hermann Hesse
99. Knowledge without without wisdom is load of book on the back of an ass. –Japanese Proverb
100. Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. –Baltasar Gracian
101. Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. –Diogenes Laertius
102. Man is wise only in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.
--Ibn Gabirol
103. Misfortunes make us wise.
104. Many have original minds who do not think it—they are led away by custom. –John Keats
105. None but a wise man can employ leisure well.
106. Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. –Sophocles
107. Men of genius are meteors destined to be consumed in lighting up their centrury.—Bonaparte Napoleon
108. Most things have two handles; and a wise man take hold of the best.
109. Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. –Theodore Roosevelt
110. 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. –John Selden
111. No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. –Anna Pavlova
112. One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.
113. Out of wisdom come the following three virtues: profound thought, meritorious speech, and appropriate action. –Democritus
114. Patience is the companion of wisdom. –Saint Augustine
115. Prudence is a good thing; Forethought is wisdom.
116. Property may derive from wisdom, but you cannot buy it.
117. 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
118. Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. –Cicero
119. Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. –Hebrew Proverb
120. Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. –Balthasar Gracian
121. Silence is not a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly. –Benjamin Franklin
122. Silence is a fence around wisdom. –Hebrew Proverb
123. Speak as a common people do, think as wise men do. –Aristotle
124. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. –Thomas Hobbes
125. That man is wise who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain
events of the future. –Anatole France
126. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. –William James
127. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms –Socrates
128. The doors of wisdom are never shut. –Benjamin Franklin
129. The first stage of folly is to think oneself wise.
130. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. –William Shakespears
131. The fool wanders, the wise man travels. –Thomas Fuller
132. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. –H. R. Treror Poper
133. The heart of the wise man seeks wisdom. –Anna Sophie
134. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. –Ralph Emerson
135. The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper. –Friedrich Nietzsche
136. The great creative individual…is capable of more wisdom and virture than collective man ever can be. –John Mill
137. The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. –Daniel Defoe
138. The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.
139. The more you try to hide the wisdom, the brighter it shines. It is like a beauty that hidden behind a black veil. –William Shakespeare
140. The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. –Johann von Goethe
141. The price of wisdom is above rubies. –Charles Prestwich Scott
142. The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. –Henry Thoreau
143. The wise knows most and says the least.
144. The steadfastness of the wise is but the art of keeping their agitation locked in their hearts.
--Francois de la Rochefoucauld
145. The sum of wisdom is that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.
--Ralph Waldo Emerson
146. The mark of wisdom is the ability to judge the hour, size up the situation, and act according to circumstance. –Homer
147. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in happy mind. –Ella Wilcox
148. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. –Epictetus
149. The very specially of genius is not wisdom but thought and creation.
150. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. –W.R. Inge
151. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. – Benjamin Disraeli
152. The wise man is always a good listener.
153. The wise man, before beginning an action, looks carefully to the end.
154. The wise man is deceived but once, the fool twice.
155. The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. –Herbert Spencer
156. The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. –Plato
157. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. –Ralph Emerson
158. The world wants geniuses, but it wants them to behave just like other people. –G. Moore
159. The wisest have the most authority. –Plautus
160. There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. –Brigham Young
161. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. –Samuel Johnson
162. Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all. –Persian Proverb
163. Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. –Homer
164. To be wise is to think of everything beforehand. –Leopold Ebrehard
165. To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation. ---Socrates
166. Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. –Abraham Lincoln
167. To reason with a wise man easy; with a fool, impossible.
168. To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. –Saint Augustine
169. To know oneself is wisdom, to forget oneslf is folly.
170. True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come. –Terence
171. True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.
--D. Humphre
172. Under a ragged coat loes wisdom. –Romanian Proverb
173. We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot
be wise with other men’s wisdom. –Michel de Montaigne
174. What is strength without a double share of wisdom? Strength’s not made to rule, but to subserve, where wisdom bears command. –John Milton
175. What the fool does in the end the wise man does at the beginning.
176. When a clever man hears once, he will think of it 10 times. While he sees once, he will do it 12 times.
177. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. –Benjamin Franklin
178. When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.
--Denis Diderot
179. Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
180. Wisdom consists in the ability to discriminate between the probable and improbable, and in being reconciled to the inevitable.
181. Who is the wise man? He who knows his own shortcomings.
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