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)

You are a deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was. --Anthon St. Maarten (in Seth Godin: On the Art of Noticing & Creating)

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing. --Socrates (in How To Think Like A Wise Person )

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children. --Khalil Gibran (in A 5-Year-Old's Reflection On Life & Death)

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. --Marcel Proust (in Life Lessons From An Ice-Cream Excursion )

Mistakes are the growing pains of wisdom. --William James (in Helpful Tips For Your Inner Critic)

Wonder is the beginning of wisdom. --Socrates (in Wonder: When & Why The World Appears Radiant)

Blessed are you when you enjoyed the company of elderly people. They are always ready to share their rich experience and wisdom with young people. --Lailah Gifty Akita (in Boston's High School & Senior Center in One)

Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the human creature must exercise harder-won capacities of wisdom, and wise action. --Krista Tippett (in The Mystery and Art of Living)

Wisdom begins in wonder. --Socrates (in Can Science Help You Become Wise?)

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. --Proust (in The Winter Pilgrim)