1. All human wisdom works and has worries and grief as reward.

- Johann Georg Hamann

2. What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?

- Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. A wise man may look ridiculous in the company of fools.

- Thomas Fuller

4. Travel makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

- Thomas Fuller

5. The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

- Joseph Smith, Jr.

6. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

- George Bernard Shaw

7. The way of a fool is right in his own eyes: but he that hearkeneth unto counsel is wise.

- Proverbs 12:15, KJV

8. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

- George Santayana

9. A smart man only believes half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half.

- Jeff Cooper

10. A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

- Moliere

11. Silence is true wisdom’s best reply.

- Euripides

12. Wise men make more opportunities than they find.

- Francis Bacon

13. Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

- Francis Hutcheson

14. The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

15. Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

- Gerald Brenan

16. The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom, and the knowledge of the Holy One is insight.

- Proverbs 10:9, ESV

17. Before I can live with other folks I’ve got to live with myself. The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.

- Harper Lee

18. The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool.

- Epicurus

19. Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

- Mary Browne

20. A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

- David Hume

21. Whatever we plant in our subconscious mind and nourish with repetition and emotion will one day become a reality.

- Earl Nightingale

22. It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.

- Richard Whately

23. The past is behind, learn from it. The future is ahead, prepare for it. The present is here, live it.

- Thomas S. Monson

24. A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

- Charles Dickens

25. Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

- John Patrick

26. Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

- Khalil Gibran

27. The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.

- Marcus Tullius Cicero

28. Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

- George Bernard Shaw

29. It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

- Thomas Hobbes

30. A wise man makes his own decisions, an ignorant man follows the public opinion.

- Grantland Rice

31. Wisdom begins in wonder.

- Socrates

32. There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

- Francis Bacon

33. There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

- Charles Dickens

34. Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean, sometimes you have to know what things don’t mean.

- Bob Dylan

35. Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

- William Wordsworth

36. Wisdom is a sacred communion.

- Victore Hugo

37. It all begins and ends in your mind. What you give power to, has power over you, if you allow it.

- Leon Brown

38. Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.

- Janice Trachtman

39. Learn the wisdom of compromise, for it is better to bend a little then to break.

- Jane Wells

40. Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

41. Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.

- Rumi

42. Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

43. The less you talk, the more you’re listened to.

- Pauline Phillips

44. No one wants advice – only corroboration.

- John Steinbeck

45. Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

- Confucius

46. Experience is the only prophecy of wise men.

- Alphonse de Lamartine

47. It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.

- Andre Gide

48. It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

- Aeschylus

49. Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

- Robert Kennedy

50. We are wiser than we know.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

51. The best wisdom comes from the hardest struggle.

- Xavier Rudd

52. He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

- Mary Wilson Little

53. Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

- Plato

54. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

- Albert Einstein

55. Wisdom sails with wind and time.

- John Florio

56. Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.

- Archimedes

57. Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own.

- Aesop

58. It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

- Aristotle

59. To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.

- Wilson Mizner

60. He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe.

- Marcus Aurelius

61. Wise kings generally have wise counselors; and he must be a wise man himself who is capable of distinguishing one.

- Diogenes

62. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.

- William Inge

63. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

- William Cowper

64. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

- Socrates

65. The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

- Aristotle

66. Some wisdom you must learn from one who’s wise.

- Euripides

67. We never understand how little we need in this world until we know the loss of it.

- James M. Barrie

68. The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.

- William Blake

69. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

- Henry David Thoreau

70. The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

- Isaac Asimov

71. Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

- John Cheever

72. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

- Confucius

73. Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

- Tom Wilson

74. The greater our knowledge increases the more our ignorance unfolds.

- John F. Kennedy

75. Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

- Felix Frankfurter

76. Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

- Sophocles

77. Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

- Aeschylus

78. When you betray somebody else, you also betray yourself.

- Isaac Bashevis Singer

79. I’m always doing things I can’t do. That’s how I get to do them.

- Pablo Picasso

80. The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

81. Turn your wounds into wisdom.

- Oprah Winfrey

82. Man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.

- William Temple

83. They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

- William Cowper

84. We make all sorts of assumptions because we don’t have the courage to ask questions.

- Don Miguel Ruiz

85. It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.

- Epictetus

86. Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

- George Santayana

87. A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.

- John C. Maxwell

88. It’s not the load that weighs you down, it’s how you carry it.

- C.S. Lewis

89. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.

- Doug Larson

90. In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!

- Homer

91. Do not say a little in many words but a great deal in few.

- Pythagoras

92. Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom.

- Walter Benjamin

93. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

- Bertrand Russell

94. It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

- William Inge

95. A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.

- Bruce Lee

96. The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

- Benjamin Franklin

97. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

- Thomas J. Watson

98. Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.

- Samuel Johnson

99. The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.

- Don Shula

100. Patience is the companion of wisdom.

- Saint Augustine

101. All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.

- Alexandre Dumas

102. Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

- James Newman

103. Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

- Doug Larson

104. Who is wise in love, love most, say least.

- Alfred, Lord Tennyson

105. We gain the strength of the temptation we resist.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

106. A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.

- Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

107. We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.

- Winston Churchill

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

- Theodore Isaac Rubin

109. Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.

- Hermann Hesse

110. A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

- Thomas Paine

111. He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.

- Epictetus

112. The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.

- Honore de Balzac

113. A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

- Herb Caen

114. There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

- Friedrich Nietzsche

115. Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom.

- Thomas Jeffesron

116. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

117. The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.

- Niccolo Machiavelli

118. It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn’t have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

- Desiderius Erasmus

119. Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

- Baltasar Gracian

120. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

- Immanuel Kant

121. O, what a tangled web we weave when first we practise to deceive!

- Sir Walter Scott

122. Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

- Charles Spurgeon

123. It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

- Roger Ascham

124. Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

- Sandra Carey

125. Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.

- Lao Tzu

126. To win without risk is to triumph without glory.

- Pierre Corneille

127. Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

- Elbert Hubbard

128. The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.

- Confucius

129. The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge; fools despise wisdom and instruction.

- Proverbs 1:7, ESV

130. Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.

- William Butler Yeats

131. It’s easier to resist at the beginning than at the end.

- Leonardo da Vinci

132. On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows. In every rill a sweet instruction flows.

- Edward Young

133. Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.

- Ludwig van Beethoven

134. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

- Martin H. Fischer

135. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

- Samuel Taylor Coleridge

136. Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

- Kay Redfield Jamison

137. Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

- Thomas J. Watson

138. What happens is not as important as how you react to what happens.

- Ellen Glasgow

139. To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant

140. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

- Francis Bacon

141. In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it – thou art a fool.

- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield

142. We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

- Marcel Proust

143. Faith keeps our ships moving, while empathy and the memories of our experiences lead to wisdom.

- Suzy Kassem

144. A closed mouth catches no flies.

- Miguel de Cervantes

145. In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

- John Muir

146. Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness.

- Sacha Guitry

147. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

148. Cleverness is not wisdom.

- Euripides

149. A poem begins in delight and ends in wisdom.

- Robert Frost

150. Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

- Juvenal

151. It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.

- Walter Lippmann

152. Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold.

- Bob Marley

153. The next best thing to being wise oneself is to live in a circle of those who are.

- C.S. Lewis

154. Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

- Norman Cousins

155. Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

- M. Scott Peck

156. Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.

- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

157. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

- James Huneker

158. Only a fool learns from his own mistakes. The wise man learns from the mistakes of others.

- Otto Von Bismarck

159. The simple things are also the most extraordinary things, and only the wise can see them.

- Paulo Coelho

160. A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare

161. By the mouth of a fool comes a rod for his back, but the lips of the wise will preserve them.

- Proverbs 14:3, ESV

162. The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart.

- William Hazlitt

163. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man.

- Henry David Thoreau

164. Wisdom is having things right in your life and knowing why.

- William Stafford

165. Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

- William Cowper

166. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

- Jimi Hendrix

167. The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

- Isaac D’Israeli

168. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

- William James

169. Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be.

- Lactantius

170. Wise sayings often fall on barren ground, but a kind word is never thrown away.

- Arthur Helps

171. It is impossible to love and to be wise.

- Francis Bacon

172. There is only a finger’s difference between a wise man and a fool.

- Diogenes

173. Few of the many wise apothegms which have been uttered have prevented a single foolish action.

- Thomas Babington Macaulay

174. Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.

- Carl Jung

175. Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

- St. Francis of Assisi

176. Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

- Horace

177. Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.

- Anatole France

178. Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

179. You will not be punished for your anger; you will be punished by your anger.

- Buddha

180. Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself.

- Oprah Winfrey

181. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

- David Starr Jordan

182. A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

- Khalil Gibran

183. It’s not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.

- Henry David Thoreau