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"Wisdom is the lesson learned, applied."
-- ©Rick Beneteau

"The person who is really alert and well poised and able to speak wisely under trying circumstance, is the person who has practiced in the silence."

"The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good. Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom."
-- James Allen (1864-1912) Author of As A Man Thinketh

"The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life."
-- John Albert Macy (1877-1932), American literary editor, married to Anne Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller.

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."

-- Naquib Mahfouz(1911–2006), Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner

"The art of becoming wise is the art of knowing what to overlook."
-- William James, psychologist

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
-- Martin H. Fischer

"Follow the wisdom provided by nature. Everything in moderation - sunlight, water, nutrients. Too much of a good thing will topple your structure. You can't harvest what you don't sow. So plant your desires, gently nurture them, and they will be rewarded with abundance."
-- Vivian Elisabeth Glyck

"The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool."
-- William Shakespeare, playwright and poet (1564-1616)

"Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks."
-- Ben Jonson

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living, the other helps you make a life."
--Sandra Carey

"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life."
-- Immanuel Kant

"There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart."
-- Charles Dickens

"Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to live is wisdom."
-- William A. Ward

"...we need to abandon the idea that wisdom is knowing everything—the whys, the wherefores, the how-tos. Wisdom is often more subtle, both far simpler and exceedingly more complex. For wisdom requires the discerning, the listening to, the acknowledgement of nudges and notions, of senses and sensations, of the minute and what we often mistakenly assume is the mundane. Wisdom means listening to the still, small voice, the whisper that can be easily lost in the whirlwind of busyness, expectations, and conventions of the world...."
-- Jean M. Blomquist

"We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore."
-- Mark Twain, author

"Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."
-- Lin Yu Tang

"With the monstrous weapons man already has, humanity is in danger of being trapped in this world by its moral adolescents. Our knowledge of science has clearly outstripped our capacity to control it. We have many men of science, but too few men of God. We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon On The Mount. Man is stumbling blindly through a spiritual darkness while toying with the precarious secrets of life and death.

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war than we know about peace, more about killing than we know about living. This is our twentieth century's claim to distinction and to progress."

-- General Omar Bradley, November 10, 1948

"From their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future."
-- Plutarch