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

24.

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

Proverb, Turkish

25.

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.

26.

It's the height of folly to want to be the only wise one.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

There are three methods to gaining wisdom. The first is reflection, which is the highest. The second is limitation, which is the easiest. The third is experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius

28.

We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

29.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain.

Lee, Robert E.

31.

Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.

Young, Andrew

32.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

33.

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

Aurelius, Marcus

34.

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Bacon, Francis

35.

The fool who persists in his folly will become wise.

Blake, William

36.

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

Confucius

37.

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

Ward, William A.

38.

The tigers of wrath are wiser than the horses of instruction.

Blake, William

39.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Hoover, Herbert Clark

40.

Wisdom and knowledge shall be the stability of your times.

Bible

41.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Basho, Matsuo

42.

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

Fitzhenry, R. I.

43.

Wisdom is meaningless until our own experience has given it meaning.

Evans, Bergen

44.

The foolish sayings of a rich man pass for wise ones.

Proverb, Spanish

45.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

46.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Socrates

47.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

Birch, Frank

48.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

Santayana, George

49.

Wisdom makes a slow defense against trouble, though a sure one in the end.

Goldsmith, Oliver

50.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

Marx, Eleanor

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