A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

Just as treasures are uncovered from the earth, so virtue appears from good deeds, and wisdom appears from a pure and peaceful mind. To walk safely through the maze of human life, one needs the light of wisdom and the guidance of virtue.

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

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.

The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.

Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Genius unrefined resembles a flash of lightning, but wisdom is like the sun.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice.

Knowledge is the treasure of a wise man.

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

Wisdom is important in every man's life.

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

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

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.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.

Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.

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

Turn your wounds into wisdom.

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

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance.

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 may best arise from a humbling reality.

Wisdom cannot come by railroad or automobile or aeroplane, or be hurried up by telegraph or telephone.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

The most excellent and divine counsel, the best and most profitable advertisement of all others, but the least practiced, is to study and learn how to know ourselves. This is the foundation of wisdom and the highway to whatever is good.

Wisdom is not acquired save as the result of investigation.

Wisdom lies neither in fixity nor in change, but in the dialectic between the two. A constant coming and going: wisdom lies in the momentary.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

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

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

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience.

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.

The intellect of the wise is like glass; it admits the light of heaven and reflects it.

Wisdom is learned through experience, and sometimes experience is hard and bitter.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

Discipline is wisdom and vice versa.

Not engaging in ignorance is wisdom.

Kindness is wisdom.

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

The best vision is insight.

Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.

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.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

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

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 knowing when you can't be wise.

Knowledge is the consequence of time, and multitude of days are fittest to teach wisdom.

To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it.