Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen. – Carl Sandburg
Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love. – Honore de Balzac
To keep your secret is wisdom but to expect others to keep it is folly. – Samuel Johnson
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause. – George Eliot
More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us. – George Eliot
I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise. – John Keats
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom. – Rush Limbaugh
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. – Anatole France
A short saying often contains much wisdom. – Sophocles
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech. – Plutarch
If we have built on the fragile cornerstones of human wisdom, pride, and conditional love, things may look good for a while, but a weak foundation causes collapse when storms hit. – Charles Stanley
The final wisdom of life requires not the annulment of incongruity but the achievement of serenity within and above it. – Reinhold Niebuhr
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. – Michel de Montaigne
At sixty, I know little more about wisdom than I did at thirty, but I know a great deal more about folly. – Mason Cooley
The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box. – Thomas Huxley
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom. – Anatole France
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. – Theodore Isaac Rubin
Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom. – Bodhidharma
Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors. – James Madison
