One can learn such a lot and enjoy such a lot in seventy years, and three generations is a long, long time to see human follies and acquire human wisdom. Anyone who is wise and has lived long enough to witness the changes of fashion and morals and politics through the rise and fall of three generations should be perfectly satisfied to rise from his seat and go away saying, 'It was a good show,' when the curtain falls. --Lin Yutang (in Human Follies and Human Wisdom)

With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity. --Keshavan Nair (in What Makes A Hero?)

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. --Herophilus (in Grand Challenges)

When health is absent, wisdom cannot reveal itself, art cannot manifest, strength cannot fight, wealth becomes useless, and intelligence cannot be applied. --Herophilus (in Nonprofit Pharmaceutical)

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. --Merry Browne (in The Price of Prejudice)

Knowledge speaks. Wisdom listens. --Jimi Hendrix (in The Wisdom of Listening)

Every suffering is a seed, because suffering impels us to seek wisdom. --Bodhidharma (in Soul For Sale)

Little by little wean yourself. This is the gist of what I have to say. From an embryo, whose nourishment comes in the blood, move to an infant drinking milk, to a child on solid food, to a searcher after wisdom, to a hunter of more invisible game. --Rumi (in Small Change, Big Difference)

Life is the only real counseler; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. --Edith Wharton (in 41 Letters To Younger Selves)

My experience with these groups is that the stronger the collective wisdom present, the stronger my sense of unique individuality -- only now it's within the context of the whole rather than separate from the whole. --Tom Callanan (in Discovering Collective Wisdom)

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. --Lin Yutang (in Shared Shopping Sabbatical)

Music is your own experience, your own thoughts, your wisdom. If you don't live it, it won't come out of your horn. They teach you there's a boundary line to music. But, man, there's no boundary line to art. --Charlie Parker (in The Strings of Soweto)

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. --Immanuel Kant (in South Africa's Free Science Texts)

The world is too small, our wisdom too limited, our time here too short, to waste any more of it in winning fleeting victories at other people’s expense. We have to now find a way to triumph together. --Bill Clinton (in Bill Clinton & My Commitment)

To know how to grow old is the master-work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living. --Henri Amiel (in Secrets of the Very Very Old)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. --Juvenal (in Strangest Sights on Earth)

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Greek Proverb (in A Reflection on Science and Wonder)

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. --Henry Miller (in Don't Just Stand There, Think!)

The final piece of reaching for authentic power is releasing your own to a higher form of wisdom. --Gary Zukav (in The Power Paradox)

The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. --James Allen (in Stop! Calm Down! Think!)

Turn your wounds into wisdom. --Oprah Winfrey (in Tornado-Hit Town's Green Recovery)

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. --Georg C. Lichtenberg (in The Best Advice I Ever Got)

We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. --Samuel Smiles (in Listening to Failure)

It is no longer enough to be smart -- all the technological tools in the world add meaning and value only if they enhance our core values, the deepest part of our heart. Acquiring knowledge is no guarantee of practical, useful application. Wisdom implies a mature integration of appropriate knowledge, a seasoned ability to filter the inessential from the essential. --Doc Childre and Bruce Crye (in A Call To Practical Wisdom)

Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. --Greek Adage (in 1 Piece of Advice)

Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. --Reinhold Niebuhr (in The Limits of Control)

The interdependency of humankind, the relevance of relationship, the sacredness of creation is ancient, ancient wisdom. --Rebecca Adamson (in Synagogue a Mosque During Ramadan)

Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. --Walter Benjamin (in The Elder Wisdom Circle)

Life is a gift of nature; but beautiful living is the gift of wisdom. --Greek Adage (in 70 Words of Wisdom for 2010)

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Inmates Take Yoga to Reduce Jail Sentence)

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind. --Ella Wheeler Wilcox (in Interior Designing for Kindness!)

To learn and never be filled, is wisdom; to teach and never be weary, is love. --Unknown (in The 12-year-old Headmistress)

We rely upon artists to articulate what most of us can only feel in joy and sorrow. Whenever I feel my courage wavering I rush to them. They will give me the wisdom of acceptance, the will and resilience to push on. --Helen Hayes (in Giving Slums a Human Face)

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials. --Lin Yutang (in An Academic Sparks Giving to Charity)

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. --Juvenal (in Intelligence That Transcends the GRE)

Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. --Phyllis Theroux (in Life is 'Baeutiful')

Silence is a fence around wisdom. --German Proverb (in Shhh! Quiet People at Work)

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom. --Thomas Jefferson (in Family Finds $45K -- And Returns It)

Turn your wounds into wisdom. --Oprah Winfrey (in Using Soccer to Turn it Around)

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. --David Starr Jordan (in Fostering Virtue)

Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers. --Julio Olalla (in A Love Affair With Questions)

Patience is the companion of wisdom. --St. Augustine (in Why Patience Pays Off)

Wisdom tells me I am nothing. Love tells me I am everything. And between the two my life flows. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in Valentine's Day Wisdom)

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Tao Te Ching (in Intelligence Is Overrated: What It Really Takes to Succeed)

A loving heart is the truest wisdom. --Charles Dickens (in Love is the Answer)

Life offers its wisdom generously. Everything teaches. Not everyone learns. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Literary Physician & How Stories Heal)

The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. --Ralph Waldo Emerson (in The Learning Curve of Gratitude)

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. --Ansel Adams (in A Manifesto for Living)

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu (in Six Ways to Become A Wise Leader)

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Socrates (in Wonder: The Most Human of Emotions)