Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God, or several signatures of that one archetypal seal, or like so many multiplied reflections of one and the same face, made in several glasses, whereof some are clearer, some obscurer, some standing nearer, some further off.

Cudworth, Ralph J.

20.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

21.

The beginning of wisdom is to desire it.

Gabirol, Ibn

22.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

James Boswell

23.

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

Cheever, John

24.

Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Proverb, Turkish

25.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

26.

When you move amidst the world of sense, free from attachment and aversion alike, there comes the peace in which all sorrows end, and you life in the wisdom of the Self.

Bhagavad Gita

27.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

28.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

Horace

29.

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

Levenson, Samuel

30.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.

Saroyan, William

31.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Mencken, H. L.

32.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

Oprah Winfrey

33.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo

34.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Franklin, Benjamin

35.

Wisdom is better than weapons of war. [9:18b, Ecclesiastes]

Bible

36.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

Taylor, Sid

37.

Wisdom hath her excesses, and no less need of moderation than folly.

Montaigne, Michel Eyquem De

38.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Proverb, Chinese

39.

Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.

Aristophanes

40.

A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

Machiavelli, Niccolo

41.

Who is a wise man? He who learns of all men.

Talmud, The

42.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

43.

Blessed is the man who finds wisdom, the man who gains understanding, for she is more profitable than silver and yields better returns than gold. She is more precious than rubies; nothing you desire can compare with her. [Proverbs 3:13-15]

Bible

44.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Shaw, George Bernard

45.

Timing, degree and conviction are the three wise men in this life.

Fitzhenry, R. I.

46.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

47.

Wisdom is knowledge, rightly applied.

48.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von