Wisdom

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it. – FranÃ§ois VI de la Rochefoucault

Age is the price of wisdom. – Proverb

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. – Josh Billings

There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

The prince who would know all, must ignore much. – Domitius Afer, translated from Latin

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. – Mehmet Murat ildan

Every wise man lives in an observatory. – Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare, Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. – Martin H. Fischer (1879–1962)

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. – Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever wise by chance. – Seneca

Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half-wise, sometimes half-stupid. – Terri Guillemets

Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. – Socrates

Wisdom begins in wonder. – Socrates

A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool. – Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart. – Nelson Mandela

Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. – Thomas Jefferson

Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment. – Jim Rohn

Winners never quit and quitters never win. – Vince Lombardi

A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them. – John C. Maxwell