Wisdom
In Greece wise men speak and fools decide.
- Anacharsis
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
- Chesterfield, Lord
The pine stays green in winter...Wisdom in hardship.
- Chinese Proverb
What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes?
- Douglas, Norman
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
- Emerson, Ralph Waldo
He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
- Euripides
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- James, William
Call him wise whose actions, words, and steps are all a clear because to a clear why.
- Lavater, Johann Kaspar
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
- Santayana, George
In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
- Talmud, The
The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.
- Taylor, Jeremy
When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
- Teasdale, Sara
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
- Wordsworth, William
