Every speaker has a mouth An arrangement rather neat. Sometimes it's filled with wisdom. Sometimes it's filled with feet.
Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious.
We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
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.
The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. The wisdom of the novel comes from having a question for everything.
Doubt is the vestibule through which all must pass before they can enter into the temple of wisdom.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
The truest greatness lies in being kind the truest wisdom in a happy mind.
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.
It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
In my definition of consciousness consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit.
To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.
The extreme limit of wisdom that's what the public calls madness.
Lord bless me with the ability to achieve all that I can and the wisdom to realize it doesn't all have to be by tomorrow!
If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
The hunger for facile wisdom is the root of all false philosophy.
Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
To think ill of mankind and not wish ill to them is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue.
The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
It's a failure of national vision when you regard children as weapons and talents as materials you can mine assay and fabricate for profit and defense.