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"The Scripture vouches solomon for the wisest of men; and his proverbs prove him so, The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame each of them by a single sentence, consisting of two or three words." »South
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"When solomon said there was a time and a place for everything he had not encountered the problem of parking his automobile." »Bob Edwards
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"Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King solomon, then there were promise in the voyage." »Herman Melville, Moby Dick
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"Between wisdom and a good shield, always prefer the wisdom, because no shield can protect us better than wisdom!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Without living the most chaotic internal storms, you can't get the calmness of the wisdom! wisdom is the child of the storm." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides." »Gene Oliver
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom No wisdom but in submission to the gods. Big words are always punished, And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles
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"There is no happiness where there is no wisdom;
No wisdom but in submission to the gods.
Big words are always punished,
And proud men in old age learn to be wise." »Sophocles, Antigone
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"wisdom is supreme therefore make a full effort to get wisdom. Esteem her and she will exalt your embrace her and she will honor you." »Proverbs 47-8
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"Wit and wisdom differ. Wit is upon the sudden turn, wisdom is in bringing about ends." »John Selden
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"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom the music is nothing if the audience is deaf." »Walter Lippmann
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"Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom." »Theodore Isaac Rubin
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"wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting, get understanding." »Bible, Proverbs, 4:7
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"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own." »W. R. Inge
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"wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone." »Horace
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"There is a wisdom of the head, and ... a wisdom of the heart." »Charles Dickens
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"wisdom alone is the true and unalloyed coin for which we ought to exchange all things, for this and with this everything is bought and sold?fortitude, temperance, and justice; in a word, true virtue subsists with wisdom." »Plato
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"Create a wisdom and share it with others; in return, don’t wait for anything, not even a simple thanks, because expecting something in return does not belongs to the wisdom!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future." »Vernon Cooper
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"Be humble, if thou would'st attain to wisdom. Be humbler still, when wisdom thou hast mastered." »H Hahn Blavatsky
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"If you wish to know how much preferable wisdom is to gold, then observe: if you change gold you get silver for it, but your gold is gone; but if you exchange one sort of wisdom for another, you obtain fresh knowledge, and at the same time keep what you possessed before." »The Talmud
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"Memory is not wisdom; idiots can by rote repeat volumes. Yet what is wisdom without memory?" »Martin Tupper
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"Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. In the long run of history, the censor and the inquisitor have always lost. The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas. The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education." »Alfred Whitney
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"Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue." »Buddha
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"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know." »William Saroyan
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"Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment." »Lord Ritchie-Calder
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"Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu, On Leveling All Things
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"Great wisdom is generous petty wisdom is contentious. Great speech is impassioned, small speech cantankerous." »Chuang-tzu
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"The wisdom of the Moon is greater than the wisdom of the Earth, because the Moon sees the universe better than the Earth can see it!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"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 Haddon Spurgeon
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