Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Coolidge, Calvin

19.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

Nietzsche, Friedrich

20.

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Wittgenstein, Ludwig

21.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

22.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

23.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

Russell, Bertrand

24.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

25.

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

Nietzsche, Friedrich

26.

It is not from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom.

Maeterlinck, Maurice

27.

Let no man deceive himself. If any man among you seemeth to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise. For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God. [1 Corinthians 3:18-19]

Bible

28.

Wisdom alone is the science of others sciences.

Plato

29.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

30.

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.

James, William

31.

Wise men still seek Him today.

Bell, Dan

32.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

Blake, William

33.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

Tolstoy, Count Leo

34.

The greatest scholars are not usually the wisest people.

Chaucer, Geoffrey

35.

Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Asimov, Isaac

36.

Follow then the shining ones, the wise, the awakened, the loving, for they know how to work and forbear.

Buddha

37.

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

Oprah Winfrey

38.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

39.

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

Robbie Gass

40.

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.

41.

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

Azai, Rabbi Ben

42.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Hesse, Hermann

43.

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

44.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Bible

45.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

46.

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

Galbraith, John Kenneth