Funny quotes about wisdom…
- Silence: True wisdom’s best reply.
- Wisdom is the reward for surviving our own stupidity. Brian Rathbone
- Wisdom: Knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.
- We all admire the wisdom of people who come to us for advice. Jack Herbert
- Wisdom is at all times the least burdensome traveling pack. William Camden
- Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth
- Democracy: The belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. (Carlyle Thomas)
- Look about, my son, and see how little wisdom it takes to govern the world. Axel Oxenstierna
- Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
- Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself. Tom Wilson
- In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria. Benjamin Franklin
- Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. Doug Larson
- A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew. Herb Caen
- Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Miles Kington
- Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
- Some coaches pray for wisdom; I pray for 260-pound tackles they’ll give me plenty of wisdom. Chuck Noll
- Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard
- It’s surprising how much wisdom every man possesses — if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others. Van Esar
- For every proverb that so confidently asserts its little bit of wisdom there is usually an equal and opposite proverb that contradicts it. Proverbial Law
- I think there is more wisdom in a single drop of rain than there is in all the books in all the libraries of the world – wait not rain – super-concentrated brain juice. Jack Handey
- More than any other time in history, mankind faces cross-roads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly. Woody Allen
- Lord, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to hide the bodies of those people I had to kill because they pissed me off! Sarah Ferguson
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…and being wise
- A word to the wise is — unnecessary. Evan Esar
- Some folks are wise and some otherwise. Josh Billings
- Growing old is mandatory. Growing wise is optional. Sign
- Wise people think all they say, fools say all they think.
- Some folks are wise and some are otherwise. Tobias Smollett
- The wise man has long ears and a short tongue. German proverb
- Confucius say if wise man marry he become otherwise. Confucius
- Wise saying: something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.
- Silence is foolish if we are wise but wise if we are foolish. Charles Caleb Colton
- A wise saying is something you keep picking up off the floor in front of your fridge.
- Look wise, say nothing, and grunt. Speech was given to conceal thought. William Osler
- It’s so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and then don’t say it.
- Why wasn’t Jesus born in the USA? Because God couldn’t find three wise men and a virgin.
- Any fool can paint a picture but it takes a wise man to be able to sell it. Samuel Butler
- A word to the wise ain’t necessary it is the stupid ones who need all the advice. Bill Cosby
- Some folks as they grow older grow wise but most folks simply grow stubborner. Josh Billings
- By the time a man is wise enough to watch his step he’s too old to go anywhere. Billy Crystal
- Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
- In those days he was wiser than he is now — he used frequently to take my advice. Winston Churchill
- Cabbage: A familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man’s head. Ambrose Bierce
- It is wise to remember that you are one of those who can be fooled some of the time. Laurence J. Peter
- Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog a flood and a man who thinks he is wise. Welsh proverb
- At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well and talk well but not too wisely. Somerset Maugham
- History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. Abba Eban
- No woman can make a wise man out of a fool, but every woman can change a wise man into a fool. Argentinan Proverb
- I’m not waiting until my hair turns white to become patient and wise. Nope, I’m dyeing my hair tonight. Jarod Kintz
- Education: that which reveals to the wise and conceals from the stupid the vast limits of their knowledge. Mark Twain
- Only the most foolish of mice would hide in a cat’s ear, but only the wisest of cats would think to look there. Scott Love
- Those wise decisions you make when you’re young are those foolish ones you’ll live with when your old. Country expression
- A pipe gives a wise man time to think and a fool something to stick in his mouth. Trischmann’s Paradox (Axiom of the Pipe)
- He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty. Mary Wilson Little
- A wise woman puts a grain of sugar in everything she says to a man, and takes a grain of salt with everything he says to her. Helen Rowland
- When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve. Oscar Wilde
- It’s a wise man who profits by his own experience but it’s a good deal wiser one who lets the rattlesnake bite the other fellow. Josh Billings
- Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn’t mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar. Edward R. Murrow
- When you’re young, you think you can handle anything. By the time you find out otherwise, it’s already too late. You got a stocking wrapped around your neck. Haruki Murakami
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