A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
~Oscar Wilde
Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
~Doug Larson
During a carnival, people put masks over their masks.
~Xavier Forneret
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
~George Santayana
Isolation is always a good breeding ground for prejudice.
~Malcolm Hedding
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
~Norman Cousins
Wisdom is before him that hath understanding; but the eyes of a fool are in the ends of the earth.
~ Bible
Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost.
~Edward Counsel
He taketh wise in their own craftiness: and the counsel of the froward is carried headlong.
~Bible
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi
Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.
~Bible
I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
~John Buchan
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.
~ Bible
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
~Albert Einstein
Water is fluid, soft, and yielding. But water will wear away rock, which is rigid and cannot yield. As a rule, whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. This is another paradox: what is soft is strong.
~Lao-Tzu (600 B.C.)
For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.
~ Bible
He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
~Lao Tze
Don’t approach a goat from the front, a horse from the back or a fool from any side.
~Yiddish Proverb
A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.
~John Henry Cardinal Newman
The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
~Oscar Wilde
Information is not knowledge, knowledge is not wisdom, wisdom is not truth, truth is not beauty, beauty is not love.
~Frank Zappa
It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
~Philip Moeller
Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.
~Thomas Jefferson
The wisdom of nations lies in their proverbs,
which are brief and pithy.
~William Penn
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
~David Starr Jordan
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
~James Boswell
Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
~Confucius
If you don’t like the road you’re walking, pave another one.
~Dolly Parton
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
~Alfred Tennyson
Wisdom begins in wonder.
~Socrates
The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook.
~William James
Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
~Tom Wilson
Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?
~Friedrich Nietzsche
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.
~Cullen Hightower
Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.
~Horace (65 BC – 8 BC), Odes
Wisdom is a sacred communion.
~Victor Hugo
Too bad that all the people who really know how to run the country are busy driving taxi cabs and cutting hair.
~George Burns
An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.
~John Junor
No man is wise enough by himself.
~ Titus Maccius Plautus
Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
~ Baltasar Gracian
Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
~Sandara Carey
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
~David Star Jordan
Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice.
~Sophocles
The more you know, the less you need to show.
~Unknown
Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
~Doug Larson
It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
~B. J. Palmer.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
~St. Augustine
Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
~Jonathan Swift.
The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
~ William Shakespeare
A fool sees not the same tree that a wise man sees.
~William Blake
Wisdom begins at the end.
~Daniel Webster
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
~George Bernard Shaw.
We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
~Michel de Montaigne
Fear less, hope more; whine less, breathe more; talk less, say more; hate less, love more; and all good things are yours.
~Swedish Proverb
The mind unlearns with difficulty what it has long learned.
~Seneca.
Wisdom and folly are equal before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.
~Leonid Andreyev
Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
~Elbert Hubbard
If you have read though all the quotations, you will have become wiser.