Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Kindness is wisdom.

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Judgment comes from experience - and experience comes from bad judgment.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.

Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom comes out of dialogue so you have to develop the capacity to expose your own ignorance in order that they may discover their own wisdom.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong, if we do not feel right.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

Wisdom is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

Good judgment comes from experience and experience comes from bad judgment.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience.

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.

Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

Wisdom and penetration are the fruit of experience, not the lessons of retirement and leisure. Great necessities call out great virtues.

Wisdom may best arise from a humbling reality.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Depend upon yourself. Make your judgement trustworthy by trusting it. You can develop good judgement as you do the muscles of your body - by judicious, daily exercise. To be known as a man of sound judgement will be much in your favor.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

We are to seek wisdom and understanding only in the length of days.

Judgements prevent us from seeing the good that lies beyond appearances.

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil, not the strength to choose between the two.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a color.

Wisdom is keeping a sense of fallibility of all our views and opinions.

Wisdom is nothing but a preparation of the soul, a capacity, a secret art of thinking, feeling and breathing thoughts of unity at every moment of life.