1. A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy. –William Temple2. A short saying often contains much wisdom. –Sophocles3. 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. Lucas5. A fool may sometimes give a wise man counsel.6. A man’s wisdom is the source of pleasure. – Boccaccio7. 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 Twain9. A well-bred person can wisely treat the criticism.10. A prudent question is one-half of wisdom. – Francis Bacon11. A spoon does not know the taste of soup, nor a learned fool the taste of wisdom.—Welsh Proverb12. A word to the wise is enough.13. A really intelligent man feels what other men only know.--Motesquieu14. A wise man changes his mind sometimes, a fool never.--Jonathan Swift15. A wise man gets more out of his enemies than a fool gets out of his friend.-- African Proverb16. A wise man hears one word and understand two.--Yiddish Proverb17. A wise man never loses anything if he has himself.-- Friedrich Nietzsche18. A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything.--African Proverb19. A wise man knows his own ignorance; a fool thinks he knows everything.-- C. Simmons20. A wise man never attempts impossibilities.-- Philip Massinger21. As a solid rock is not shaken by a strong gale, so wise person remains unaffected by praise or censure. --- Buddha22. A wise man’s question contains half the answer. – Ibn Gabirol23. A wise man sees as much as he ought, not as much as he can.-- Michel de Montaigne24. 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 Bacon26. All human wisdom is summed up in two words—wait and hope.-- Alexandre Dumas27. All is but lip-wisdom which wants experience. –Philip Sidney28. Adversity reveals genius; fortune conceals it. – Horace29. Any fool can carry on, but only the wise man knows how to shorten sail. – Joseph Conrad30. Be swift to hear, slow to speak.31. Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so. – Philip Chesterfield32. Be wisely worldly, be not worldly wise. – Edgar Howe33. Brevity is the soul of wit.34. Clever men are the tools with which bad men work. –William Hazlitt35. 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. –Plutarch36. Cunning…is but the low mimic of wisdom. –Henry Bolingbroke37. Cleverness is better than force. –Rabelais38. 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 Lover40. Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom. –Samuel Coleridge41. Deliberate often—decide once. –Latin Proverb42. Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.—Turkish Proverb43. Even from a foe a man may learn wisdom.—Greek Proverb44. Everyone is a genius at least once a year; a real genius has his original ideas closer together.--G. C. Lichtenberg45. Experience is the fool’s master, reason the wise man’s. –Euripides46. Experience is the mother of wisdom.47. Experience makes even fools wise.—Saint Augustine48. Folly is most incurable disease. –Khalil Gibran49. Fools and wise men are equally harmless. It is the half-fools and the half-wise that are dangerous. –Goethe50. 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 Proverb52. From the errors of others a wise man corrects his own. –Publius Syrus53. Genius is one per cent inspiration and ninety-nine percent perspiration. –Thomas Edison54. Genius only means hard-working all one’s life. –Mendeleev55. Get rid of petty cleverness and great wisdom will come out. –Zhuang Zhou56. Gray hair is a sign of age, not of wisdom. –Greek Proverb57. He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.—James Gibbons Huneker58. He’s a fool that cannot conceal his wisdom. –Benjamin Franklin59. 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. –Boethius63. He who knows others is learned, and he who knows himself is wise. –Lao Zi64. He who recognizes his folly is on the road to wisdom.65. How prone to doubt, how caution is the wise. –Homer66. Ignorance is the mother of superstition.—Honore de Balzac67. I am not only witty in myself, but the cause that wit is in other men. –William Shakespeare68. I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. –Thomas Carlyle69. I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.—Abraham Lincoln70. I know no such things as genius; it is nothing but labour and diligence. –Hogarth71. I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom. –Anatole France72. 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. –Proverb75. Intellect is invisible to the man who has none.—Arthur Schopenhauer76. Intelligence is quickness in seeing things as they are. –George Santayana77. Intelligence is not to make no mistakes, but quickly to see how to make them good. –Bertolt Brecht78. It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. –Roger Ascham79. It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. –Henry Thoreau80. It is always wise to look ahead, but difficult to look farther than you can see. –Winston Churchill81. It is easier to be wise for others than for ourselves. –Francois de la Rochefoucauld82. It is better to speak wisdom foolishly, like the saints, rather than to speak folly wisely, like the dons. –Gilbert Chesterton83. It is easier to be original and foolish than original and wise. –Gottfried Leibniz84. It is human nature to think wisely and act foolishly. –Anatole France85. It is the nature of every man to err, but only the fool perseveres in the error. –Cicero86. It is the nature of folly to see the faults of others and forget his own. –Oscar Wilde87. It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.—Oliver Holmes88. It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas. –Charles Peguy89. 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’Estrange90. It things were to be done twice, all would be wise.91. Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. –Alfred Tennyson92. 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 Confection93. Knowledge without wisdom is double folly. –Balthasar Gracian94. Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. –John Morrison95. Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more. –William Cowper96. Knowledge makes an erudite scholar, but only wisdom can make a wise man. –Michel de Montaigne97. Knowledge which is divorced from justice, may be called cunning rather than wisdom. –Cicero98. Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. –Hermann Hesse99. Knowledge without without wisdom is load of book on the back of an ass. –Japanese Proverb100. Many would be wise if they did not think themselves wise. –Baltasar Gracian101. Make wisdom your provision for the journey from youth to old age, for it is a more certain support than all other possessions. –Diogenes Laertius102. Man is wise only in search of wisdom; when he imagines he has attained it, he is a fool.--Ibn Gabirol103. Misfortunes make us wise.104. Many have original minds who do not think it—they are led away by custom. –John Keats 105. None but a wise man can employ leisure well.106. Much wisdom often goes with fewer words. –Sophocles107. Men of genius are meteors destined to be consumed in lighting up their centrury.—Bonaparte Napoleon108. Most things have two handles; and a wise man take hold of the best.109. Nine tenths of wisdom is being wise in time. –Theodore Roosevelt110. No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon, but wit and wisdom are born with a man. –John Selden111. No one can arrive from being talented alone. God gives talent; work transforms talent into genius. –Anna Pavlova112. One good head is better than a hundred strong hands.113. Out of wisdom come the following three virtues: profound thought, meritorious speech, and appropriate action. –Democritus114. Patience is the companion of wisdom. –Saint Augustine115. Prudence is a good thing; Forethought is wisdom.116. Property may derive from wisdom, but you cannot buy it.117. Practical wisdom is only to be learned in the school of experience. Precepts and instruction are useful so far as they go, but, without the discipline of real life, they remain of the nature of theory only. –Samuel Smiles118. Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom. –Cicero119. Rivalry of scholars advances wisdom. –Hebrew Proverb120. Self-reflection is the school of wisdom. –Balthasar Gracian121. Silence is not a sign of wisdom, but babbling is ever a folly. –Benjamin Franklin122. Silence is a fence around wisdom. –Hebrew Proverb123. Speak as a common people do, think as wise men do. –Aristotle124. Such is the nature of men, that howsoever they may acknowledge many others to be more witty, or more eloquent, or more learned; yet they will hardly believe there be many so wise as themselves. –Thomas Hobbes125. That man is wise who neither hopes nor fears anything from the uncertain events of the future. –Anatole France126. The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. –William James127. The beginning of wisdom is the definition of terms –Socrates128. The doors of wisdom are never shut. –Benjamin Franklin129. The first stage of folly is to think oneself wise.130. The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. –William Shakespears131. The fool wanders, the wise man travels. –Thomas Fuller132. The function of genius is not to give new answers, but pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve. –H. R. Treror Poper133. The heart of the wise man seeks wisdom. –Anna Sophie134. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. –Ralph Emerson 135. The growth of wisdom may be gauged accurately by the decline of ill temper. –Friedrich Nietzsche136. The great creative individual…is capable of more wisdom and virture than collective man ever can be. –John Mill137. The height of human wisdom is to bring our tempers down to our circumstances, and to make a calm within, under the weight of the greatest storm without. –Daniel Defoe138. The only competition worthy of a wise man is with himself.139. The more you try to hide the wisdom, the brighter it shines. It is like a beauty that hidden behind a black veil. –William Shakespeare140. The mind is found most acute and most uneasy in the morning. Uneasiness is, indeed, a species of sagacity-a passive sagacity. Fools are never uneasy. –Johann von Goethe141. The price of wisdom is above rubies. –Charles Prestwich Scott142. The pleasures of the intellect are permanent, the pleasures of the heart are transitory. –Henry Thoreau143. The wise knows most and says the least.144. The steadfastness of the wise is but the art of keeping their agitation locked in their hearts.--Francois de la Rochefoucauld145. The sum of wisdom is that the time is never lost that is devoted to work.--Ralph Waldo Emerson146. The mark of wisdom is the ability to judge the hour, size up the situation, and act according to circumstance. –Homer147. The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in happy mind. –Ella Wilcox 148. The two powers which in my opinion constitute a wise man are those of bearing and forbearing. –Epictetus149. The very specially of genius is not wisdom but thought and creation.150. The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense. –W.R. Inge151. The wisdom of the wise and the experience of ages may be preserved by quotation. –Benjamin Disraeli152. The wise man is always a good listener.153. The wise man, before beginning an action, looks carefully to the end.154. The wise man is deceived but once, the fool twice.155. The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. –Herbert Spencer156. The wise man will want to be ever with him who is better than himself. –Plato157. The wise through excess of wisdom is made a fool. –Ralph Emerson158. The world wants geniuses, but it wants them to behave just like other people. –G. Moore159. The wisest have the most authority. –Plautus160. There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source. –Brigham Young161. There is no wisdom in useless and hopeless sorrow. –Samuel Johnson162. Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all. –Persian Proverb163. Those unacquainted with the world take pleasure in intimacy with great men; those who are wiser fear the consequences. –Homer164. To be wise is to think of everything beforehand. –Leopold Ebrehard165. To care for wisdom and truth and improvement of the soul is far better than to seek money and honor and reputation. ---Socrates166. Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. –Abraham Lincoln167. To reason with a wise man easy; with a fool, impossible.168. To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. –Saint Augustine169. To know oneself is wisdom, to forget oneslf is folly.170. True wisdom consists not in seeing what is immediately before our eyes, but in foreseeing what is to come. –Terence171. True wisdom is to know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing.--D. Humphre172. Under a ragged coat loes wisdom. –Romanian Proverb173. We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. –Michel de Montaigne174. What is strength without a double share of wisdom? Strength’s not made to rule, but to subserve, where wisdom bears command. –John Milton175. What the fool does in the end the wise man does at the beginning.176. When a clever man hears once, he will think of it 10 times. While he sees once, he will do it 12 times.177. When you assemble a number of men to have the advantage of their joint wisdom, you inevitably assemble with those men all their prejudices, their passions, their errors of opinion, their local interests and their selfish views. –Benjamin Franklin178. When we know how to read our own hearts, we acquire wisdom of the hearts of others.--Denis Diderot179. Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.180. Wisdom consists in the ability to discriminate between the probable and improbable, and in being reconciled to the inevitable.181. Who is the wise man? He who knows his own shortcomings.182.。