Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

Bible

16.

What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are clever people.

17.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

18.

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

Schiller, Johann Friedrich Von

19.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

20.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Menander

21.

Beauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.

Proverb, Chinese

22.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

23.

The wise man sees in the misfortune of others what he should avoid.

Aurelius, Marcus

24.

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

25.

The extreme limit of wisdom --that's what the public calls madness.

Cocteau, Jean

26.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Phaedrus

27.

For it is not possible to join serpentine wisdom with columbine innocence, except men know exactly all the conditions of the serpent: his baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, his envy and sting, and the rest; that is, all forms and natures of evil: for without this, virtue lieth open and unfenced.

Bacon, Francis

28.

The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.

Nietzsche, Friedrich

29.

The ear that heareth the reproof of life abideth among the wise. [Proverbs 15: 31]

Bible

30.

The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.

Socrates

31.

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

32.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.

Noll, Chuck

34.

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

Talmud, The

35.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson. The mountain teaches stability and grandeur; the ocean immensity and change. Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes, -- every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man. Even the bee and ant have brought their little lessons of industry and economy.

Marden, Orison Swett

36.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

Quinault, Philippe

37.

Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.

Ward, William A.

38.

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.

Galbraith, John Kenneth

39.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Brecht, Bertolt

40.

No man is wise enough by himself.

Titus Maccius Plautus

41.

Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. It embraces judgment, discernment, comprehension. It is a gestalt or oneness, and integrated wholeness.

Covey, Stephen R.

42.

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

James Boswell

43.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

44.

Who is wise? One who learns from all.

Talmud, The

45.

The mistakes of the fool are known to the world, but not to himself. The mistakes of the wise man are known to himself, but not to the world.

Colton, Charles Caleb

46.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Franklin, Benjamin

47.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Walt Whitman

48.

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

49.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Sophocles

50.

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

Watson, Thomas J.