"Wisdom and folly are equal
before the face of Infinity, for Infinity knows them not.'
{LEONID ANDREYEV},
"There's little comfort in
the wise."
{RUPERT BROOKE}
"Knowledge
is proud that he has learned so much, Wisdom is
humble that he knows no more."
{WILLIAM COWPER}
"Never, no, never did Nature
say one thing and Wisdom say another."
{EDMUND BURKE}
"It is because the old have
forgotten life that they preach wisdom.
{PHILIP MOELLER}
"Wisdom consists in being
able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful."
{NICCOLO MACHIAVELLI}
"Of all the forms of wisdom,
hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving."
{JOHN FLETCHER}
"What wisdom can you find
that is greater than kindness?"
{JEAN-JACQUES ROUSSEAU}
"wise man ... proportions
his belief to the evidence."
{DAVID HUME}
"In youth men are apt to
write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may
be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which
they uttered long ago."
{NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE}
"A fool sees not the
same tree that a wise man sees."
{WILLIAM BLAKE}
"Knowledge is flour, but
wisdom is bread."
{AUSTIN O'MALLEY}
"The road to true wisdom has
seldom been spanned by mortals."
{EDWARD COUNSEL}
"Each of us knows all. We
need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom."
{DAN BROWN}
"Wisdom comes only through
suffering."
{AESCHYLUS}
"The first
and wisest of them all professed To know
this only, that he nothing knew."
{JOHN MILTON},
Man's
highest blessedness,
In wisdom
chiefly stands;
And in the
things that touch upon the Gods,
'Tish best
in word or deed
To shun
unholy pride;
Great words
of boasting bring great punishments,
And so to
grey-haired age
Teach
wisdom at the last."
{SOPHOCLES},
"You may not have very much
sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will
not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom."
{ROBERT ELLIOTT GONZALES}
"Justice without wisdom is
impossible."
{JAMES ANTHONY FROUDE}
"The wealth of mankind is
the wisdom they leave."
{JOHN BOYLE O'REILLY}
"The wise may find in
trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind."
{JOHN GODFREY SAXE}
"The wise man hath his
thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.
{IVAN PANIN}
"If we drink
from the fountain of wisdom, We thirst
for its waters e'er more."
{ARDELIA COTTON BARTON}
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