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He was gifted with the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich.
Evelyn Waugh
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Ludwig van Beethoven
Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon
Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides
Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.
Ambrose Bierce
If I don't have wisdom, I can teach you only ignorance.
Leo Buscaglia
We must expect reverses, even defeats. They are sent to teach us wisdom and prudence, to call forth greater energies, and to prevent our falling into greater disasters.
Robert E. Lee
The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.
Robert E. Lee
Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch
Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy
Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus
Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus
It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
Marcel Proust
Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson
Books are but waste paper unless we spend in action the wisdom we get from thought - asleep. When we are weary of the living, we may repair to the dead, who have nothing of peevishness, pride, or design in their conversation.
William Butler Yeats
If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise.
William Butler Yeats
Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer
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