Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Evil can be a teacher, if you look at the wisdom of its negative power.
There are three classes of men; lovers of wisdom, lovers of honor, and lovers of gain.
Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.
If you are filled with pride, then you have no room for wisdom.
Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Critical in this process of wisdom being passed down is that you also need to take it in; you need to listen to it.
We have heeded no wisdom offering guidance.
The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom.
We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
Vanity can easily overtake wisdom. It usually overtakes common sense.
Books should to one of these fours ends conduce, for wisdom, piety, delight, or use.
If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.
One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.
Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Even wisdom has to yield to self-interest.
