It is not knowing much, but what is useful, that makes a wise man.

~ Thomas Fuller

We learn wisdom from failure more than from success; we often discover what will do by finding out what will not do.

~ Samuel Smiles

The wise man never loses his temper.

~ Cicero

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

~ Cicero

A man, though wise, should never be ashamed of learning more, and must unbend his mind.

~ Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

~ Sophocles

Nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

~ Theodore Roosevelt

Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power.

~ Tao Te Ching

Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.

~ Plato

The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.

~ Oscar Wilde

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

~ Albert Einstein

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God, 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

To know when to be generous and when firm? That is wisdom.

~ Elbert Hubbard

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.

~ Baltasar Gracian

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.

~ Edith Wharton

Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding.

~ Proverbs 17:28

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

~ Robert Louis Stevenson

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

~ Georg C. Lichtenberg

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

~ George Bernard Shaw

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance.

~ Henry David Thoreau

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

~ Henry David Thoreau

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

~ Immanuel Kant

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people.

~ Mark Twain