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)

Beautiful are those whose brokenness gives birth to transformation and wisdom. --John Mark Green (in Three Stories of Healing and Transformation)

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful. --E.F. Schumacher (in Finding Right Livelihood)

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
and between the two my life moves. --Nisargadatta Maharaj (in The Man Who Wasn't There: Explorations at the Edge of Self)

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom. --Francis Bacon (in No Better Place to Meet Yourself)

Wisdom is knowing I am nothing,
Love is knowing I am everything,
And between the two my life moves.
--Nisargadatta Maharaj (in The Monk, the Butcher & the Origins of Deep Counting)

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power. --Lao Tzu (in Insight-Out: Guiding Rage into Power)

A man of wisdom delights in water. --Confucius (in Wells of Living Water)

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 Frederic Amiel (in Advice from 100-Year-Olds)

Facts bring us to knowledge, but stories lead to wisdom. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in Brian Conroy: The Art of Storytelling)

We need to haunt the house of history and listen anew to the ancestors wisdom. --Maya Angelou (in Burned Pages Don't Lie: A Genealogy Search)

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
--Confucius (in The Seed Wheel Turns)

Today we celebrate light and honor the wisdom of the shadows. In connecting with the natural world in a way that honors the sacred immanence in all things, we establish a resonance with the seasons. --Dacha Avelin (in A Solstice Invitation)

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell. --George William Russell (in Oncology Yoga: Tapping into the Wisdom of the Body)

If we are to work together more intelligently, we will need to choose processes that evoke our curiosity, humility, generosity and wisdom. --Margaret Wheatley (in Solving Complex Problems Relying on Diversity and Inclusion)

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 Their Irrepressible Innocence)

We are all here for a single purpose: to grow in wisdom and to learn to love better. --Rachel Naomi Remen (in The Soul of Medicine)

Wisdom is dangerous. Love and beauty are too. Our culture has kept us away from them, and must do so to perpetuate the insanity we see all around us. --Nikos Patedakis (in Horse Medicine, Horse Mystery)

Substitute attention for preparation. Then you'll be working in real time. Focusing attention in the present puts you in touch with a kind of natural wisdom. --Patricia Ryan Madson (in Fishing Before You Know How to Fish)