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1. A man
’
s wisdom is
his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
–
William Temple
2. A short saying often contains much
wisdom.
–
Sophocles
3. A
clever person cannot be clever in every affair.
4. A genius is a man who
does unique things of which nobody would expect
him to be capable.
-- E. V. Lucas
5. A fool may sometimes give a wise man
counsel.
6. A
man
’
s wisdom is the source
of pleasure.
–
Boccaccio
7. A still tongue makes a wise head.
8.
A
man
never
reaches
that
dizzy
height
of
wisdom
that
he
can
no
longer
be
led by
the
nose.
–
Mark Twain
9. A
well-bred person can wisely treat the criticism.
10. A prudent question is one-half of
wisdom.
–
Francis Bacon
11.
A spoon does not know the
taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of
wisdom.
—
Welsh Proverb
12.
A word to
the wise is enough.
13.
A really intelligent man feels what
other men only know.
--Motesquieu
14.
A wise man changes his mind sometimes,
a fool never.
--Jonathan Swift
15.
A wise man
gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out
of his friend.
-- African Proverb
16.
A wise man hears one word
and understand two.
--Yiddish
Proverb
17.
A
wise man never loses anything if he has himself.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
18.
A wise man never knows all,
only fools know everything.
--African
Proverb
19.
A
wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he
knows everything.
-- C. Simmons
20.
A wise man
never attempts impossibilities.
-- Philip
Massinger
21.
As
a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so
wise person remains unaffected by praise
or censure.
--- Buddha
22.
A wise man
’
s
question contains half the answer.
–
Ibn Gabirol
23.
A wise man
sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.
-- Michel de Montaigne
24.
A wise man
thinks all that he says, a fool says all that he
thinks.
25.
A
wise man will make more opportunities than he
finds.
–
Francis Bacon
26.
All human
wisdom is summed up in two
words
—
wait and hope.
-- Alexandre
Dumas
27.
All is
but lip-wisdom which wants experience.
–
Philip Sidney
28.
Adversity
reveals genius; fortune conceals it.
–
Horace
29.
Any fool can carry on, but
only the wise man knows how to shorten sail.
–
Joseph Conrad
30.
Be swift to
hear, slow to speak.
31.
Be wiser than other people if you can,
but do not tell them so.
–
Philip Chesterfield
32.
Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise.
–
Edgar Howe
33.
Brevity is
the soul of wit.
34.
Clever men are the tools with which bad
men work.
–
William Hazlitt
35.
Cato used to
assert that wise men profited more by fools, than
fools by wise men; for that
wise men
avoided the faults of fools, examples of wise men.
–
Plutarch
36.
Cunning
…
is but
the low mimic of wisdom.
–
Henry Bolingbroke
37.
Cleverness
is better than force.
–
Rabelais
38.
Cleverness is serviceable
for everything, sufficient for nothing.
39.
Circumstances are the rulers of the
weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
-- Samuel Lover
40.
Common
sense
in
an
uncommon
degree
is
what
the
world
calls
wisdom.
–
Samuel
Coleridge
41.
Deliberate
often
—
decide once.
–
Latin Proverb
42.
Even though
you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows
one.
—
Turkish Proverb
43.
Even from a
foe a man may learn
wisdom.
—
Greek Proverb
44.
Everyone is
a genius at least once a year; a real genius has
his original ideas closer together.
--G
. C.
Lichtenberg
45.
Experience is the
fool
’
s master, reason the
wise man
’
s.
–
Euripides
46.
Experience is the mother of
wisdom.
47.
Experience makes even fools
wise.
—
Saint Augustine
48.
Folly is
most incurable disease.
–
Khalil Gibran
49.
Fools
and
wise
men
are
equally
harmless.
It
is
the
half-fools
and
the
half-wise
that
are
dangerous.
–
Goethe
50.
Fools have their hearts in
their mouths, but wise men keep their mouths in
their hearts.
51.
From listening comes wisdom, and from
speaking repentance.
–
Italian Proverb
52.
From the
errors of others a wise man corrects his own.
–
Publius Syrus
53.
Genius is
one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent
perspiration.
–
Thomas Edison
54.
Genius only
means hard-working all one
’
s
life.
–
Mendeleev
55.
Get rid of
petty cleverness and great wisdom will come out.
–
Zhuang Zhou
56.
Gray hair is a sign of age,
not of wisdom.
–
Greek
Proverb
57.
He
dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in
the direction of
wisdom.
—
James Gibbons
Huneker
58.
He
’
s a fool that
cannot conceal his wisdom.
–
Benjamin Franklin
59.
He who can
understand other person
’
s
capability is a capable man.
60.
He knows useful things, not
many things, is wise.
61.
He is the wisest man who does not think
himself so.
62.
He
who
is
virtuous
is
wise;
and
he
who
is
wise
is
good;
and
he
who
is
good
is
happy.
–
Boethius
63.
He who knows others is
learned, and he who knows himself is wise.
–
Lao Zi
64.
He who recognizes his folly
is on the road to wisdom.
65.
How prone to doubt, how
caution is the wise.
–
Homer
66.
Ignorance is
the mother of
superstition.
—
Honore de
Balzac
67.
I am
not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit
is in other men.
–
William
Shakespeare
68.
I do not believe in the collective
wisdom of individual ignorance.
–
Thomas Carlyle
69.
I
do
not
think
much
of
a
man
who
is
not
wiser
today
than
he
was
yesterday.
—
Abraham
Lincoln
70.
I know no such things as genius; it is
nothing but labour and diligence.
–
Hogarth
71.
I prefer the folly of
enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
–
Anatole France
72.
If you have
wit and learning, add to it wisdom and modesty.
73.
If one talks
so much that it makes people unable to realize
what he really means, he must be
foolish man.
74.
It is easy to be wiser after the event.
–
Proverb
75.
Intellect is invisible to
the man who has none.
—
Arthur
Schopenhauer
76.
Intelligence is quickness in seeing
things as they are.
–
George
Santayana
77.
Intelligence is not to make no
mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them
good.
–
Bertolt
Brecht
78.
It is costly wisdom that is bought by
experience.
–
Roger Ascham
79.
It is a
characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate
things.
–
Henry Thoreau
80.
It
is
always
wise
to
look
ahead,
but
difficult
to
look
farther
than
you
can
see.
–
Winston
Churchill
81.
It is easier to be wise for others than
for ourselves.
–
Francois de la
Rochefoucauld
82.
It is better to speak wisdom foolishly,
like the saints, rather than to speak folly
wisely, like
the dons.
–
Gilbert Chesterton
83.
It is easier
to be original and foolish than original and wise.
–
Gottfried Leibniz
84.
It is human
nature to think wisely and act foolishly.
–
Anatole France
85.
It is the
nature of every man to err, but only the fool
perseveres in the error.
–
Cicero
86.
It is the nature of folly
to see the faults of others and forget his own.
–
Oscar Wilde
87.
It is the province of
knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of
wisdom to listen.
—
Oliver
Holmes
88.
It is the essence of genius to make use
of the simplest ideas.
–
Charles Peguy
89.
It
may
serve
as
a
comfort
to
us,
in
all
our
calamities
and
afflictions,
that
he
that
loses
anything and gets
wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.
–
Sir Roger
L
’
Estrange
90.
It things were to be done
twice, all would be wise.
91.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom
lingers.
–
Alfred
Tennyson
92.
Knowledge begins with learning;
understanding, with experience; wisdom, with
reflection:
all of which the brain
integrates into an organic whole. He who possesses
all three is a perfect man.
–
An Arabian Nights
Confection
93.
Knowledge without wisdom is double
folly.
–
Balthasar Gracian
94.
Knowledge
comes
by
taking
things
apart:
analysis.
But
wisdom
comes
by
putting
things
together.
–
John
Morrison
95.
Knowledge is proud that he has learned
so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
–
William Cowper
96.
Knowledge
makes an erudite scholar, but only wisdom can make
a wise man.
–
Michel de
Montaigne
97.
Knowledge
which
is
divorced
from
justice,
may
be
called
cunning
rather
than
wisdom.
–
Cicero