One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Animals in their generation are wiser than the sons of men but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars and lies in a very narrow compass.

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Kindness is more important than wisdom and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.

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

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

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of 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.

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

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

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

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.

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.

Silence at the proper season is wisdom and better than any speech.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain neither can he be wise.

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.