Words of Wisdom

Wisdom

A selection of Words of Wisdom.

Wisdom can be defined as accumulated philosophic or scientific learning-knowledge usually gained through experience as opposed to being taught.

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  1. A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. - Herb Caen
  2. All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man. - Henry David Thoreau
  3. Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it. - George Santayana
  4. Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion? - Friedrich Nietzsche
  5. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. - James Gibbons Huneker
  6. He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. - Mary Wilson Little
  7. Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe. - Josh Billings
  8. Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. - Juvenal
  9. Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. - Theodore Roosevelt
  10. No man was ever wise by chance. - Lucius Annaeus Seneca
  11. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. - Georg C. Lichtenberg
  12. Patience is the companion of wisdom. - Saint Augustine
  13. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. - William James
  14. The doors of wisdom are never shut. - Benjamin Franklin
  15. The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil. - Cicero
  16. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. - Socrates
  17. The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people. - Mark Twain
  18. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  19. There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. - Charles Dickens
  20. We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. - George Bernard Shaw
  21. When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth. - Sara Teasdale
  22. Wisdom begins at the end. - Daniel Webster
  23. Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. - Tom Wilson
  24. Wisdom is a sacred communion. - Victor Hugo
  25. Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents. - Kahlil Gibran

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