Wisdom is often counted folly by the unwise.
The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
The difference between a wise and foolish man is this--the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks.
WILLIAM SCOTT DOWNEY, Proverbs
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
LEONARDO DA VINCI, Thoughts on Art and Life
The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference--the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
- Contend not in wisdom with a fool, for thy sense maketh much of his conceit;
- And some errors never would have thriven, had it not been for learned refutation.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.
Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience.
The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead--wisdom, fifty miles in advance.
CHARLES WILLIAM DAY, The Maxims, Experiences, and Observations of Agogos
Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise.
JOHANN CASPAR LAVATER, Aphorisms on Man
Wisdom is ever fresh; other things grow stale, but this is the evergreen flower of nature.
Cunning is the mere ape of wisdom, and all hate its low tricks.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.
MARTIN FARQUHAR TUPPER, Proverbial Philosophy
Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom.
AUSTIN O'MALLEY, Keystones of Thought
Wisdom teaches us to live content upon a bone gnawed bare.
ABRAHAM MILLER, Unmoral Maxims
The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly.
NORMAN MACDONALD, Maxims and Moral Reflections
Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool.
He that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.
CHARLES CALEB COLTON, Lacon
Wisdom's door is ever open.
Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small.
CHARLES EDWARD JERNINGHAM, The Maxims of Marmaduke
Wise men know each other.
A simple realization that there are other points of view is the beginning of wisdom.
GRENVILLE KLEISER, Dictionary of Proverbs
Wisdom is a safe ship; and we may trust ourselves to it in all weathers.
A word to the wise isn't as good as a word from the wise.
GRENVILLE KLEISER, Dictionary of Proverbs
Be wise before the storm.
The wisdom of our parents, grandparents, ancestors. In each individual life, it seems, we must first reject that wisdom, then later come to appreciate it.
TAD WILLIAMS, Otherland: City of Golden Shadow
We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly.
Whosoever would be wise, and consequently happy, must raze out of his mind all those false mistaken notions that have been imprinting there from his infancy; and endeavour to expel that pernicious infection of error, which it has been so long hatching from erroneous customs and examples, and, which will prove fatal to it, if too long neglected.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
The wisest man is he who does not require advice.
Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not the common opinion of them.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Let not wisdom be an occasional visitor--let it ever dwell with thee.
If you desire to be wiser yet, think yourself not yet wise.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
Wisdom is an endless tower. Who but One hath ever attained the summit?
Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
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