What a wonderful world this would be if there were as many wise people as there are cleaver people.
The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.
Publilius Syrus (1st Centry BC-?) Roman writer and poet.
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862) American naturalist, poet and philosopher.
What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Swiss political philosopher and essayist.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish writer.
The beginning of wisdom is a definition of terms.
Socrates (BC 469-BC 399) Greek philosopher of Athens
Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) British statesman and philosopher.
As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.
Buddha (563 BC-483 BC) Founder of Buddhism.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges Clemenceau (1841-1929) French statesman and journalist.
Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.
Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) U.S. poet, essayist and lecturer.