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• Wisdom: Knowledge that is gained by having many experiences in life. Merriam Webster
• Wisdom: The natural ability to understand things that most other people cannot understand.  Merriam Webster
• Wisdom: The quality or state of being wise; knowledge of what is true or right coupled with just judgment as to action; sagacity, discernment, or insight. Dictionary.com
• Wisdom is not book learning but, rather, a quality or state of knowing what is true or right coupled with the judgment to discern constructive action. Wisdom is the insight and intuition contained in the proverbial still, small voice that only a quiet mind can hear and know. Sue Patton Thoele
• Inner wisdom,  Truth,  Understanding.  Intelligence,  Knowledge,  Learning,  Common sense

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Acquiring wisdom is one of the great purposes of life

• Our purpose in life is to grow in wisdom and in love. Rachel Naomi Remen
• Wisdom is knowledge which is experience and therefore life; the quest of wisdom is in reality the quest of life. J. van der Leeuw
• We don’t receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. Marcel Proust
• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. Stephen Covey
• Unless knowledge is transformed into wisdom, and wisdom is expressed in character; education is a wasteful process. Sai Baba
• Wisdom alone is true ambition’s aim, wisdom is the source of virtue and of fame; obtained with labour, for mankind employed, and then, when most you share it, best enjoyed. Alfred North Whitehead
• Your aim will be knowledge and wisdom, not the reflected glamour of fame. Abbott Lawrence Lowell
• Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up. Charlie Munger
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Life teaches wisdom to those ready to learn

• There are many ways to seek wisdom. There is travel, there are masters, there is service.  There is staring into the eyes of children and elders and lovers and strangers.  There is sitting silently in one spot and there is being swept along in life’s turbulent current.  Life itself will grant you wisdom in ways you may neither understand nor choose.    It is up to you to be open to all these sources of wisdom and to embrace them with your whole heart. Kent Nerburn
• Until we stop ourselves or, more often, have been stopped, we hope to put certain of life’s events “behind us” and get on with our living. After we stop we see that certain of life’s issues will be with us for as long as we live.  We will pass through them again and again, each time with a new story, each time with a greater understanding, until they become indistinguishable from our blessings and our wisdom.  It’s the way life teaches us to live.  Rachel Naomi Remen
• Learning,  Life is a university

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Wisdom is a true form of wealth

• Keep the gold and keep the silver, but give us wisdom. Arabian proverb
• Wisdom outweighs any wealth. Sophocles
• There are two goddesses in your heart. The Goddess of Wisdom and the Goddess of Wealth. Everyone thinks they need to get wealth first, and wisdom will come. So they concern themselves with chasing money. But they have it backwards. You have to give your heart to the Goddess of Wisdom, giver her all your love and attention, and the Goddess of Wealth will become jealous, and follow you. Joe Vigil
• Wisdom is a treasure, the key whereof is never lost. Edward Counsel
• Don’t gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold. Bob Marley
• For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. Bible, Proverbs 8:11
• How much better to get wisdom than gold, to get insight rather than silver! Bible, Proverbs
• Wisdom casts a more sparkling color than the ruby, it makes us shine as angels. Thomas Watson
• The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. John Boyle O’Reilly
• If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom. Lemuel K. Washburn
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Wisdom is a true virtue

• The rout and destruction of the passions, while a good, is not the ultimate good ; the discovery of Wisdom is the surpassing good. When this is found, all the people will sing. Philo
• The virtue of wisdom more than anything else contains a divine element which always remains. Plato
• Let not wisdom be an occasional visitor–let it ever dwell with thee. Edward Counsel
• Wise men, though all laws were abolished, would lead the same lives. Aristophanes
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Wisdom understands

• Understanding is knowing what to do; wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is actually doing it. Tristan Gylberd
• To understand the actual world as it is, not as we should wish it to be, is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
• In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Anthony Hope
• In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• There is a great difference between knowing a thing and understanding it; you can know a lot and not really understand anything. Charles F. Kettering
• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Who is wise? He who learns from all men. From all my teachers have I gotten understanding. Ben Zoma
• It’s the simple things in life that are the most extraordinary; only wise men are able to understand them. Paulo Coelho
• It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: The music is nothing if the audience is deaf. Walter Lippmann
• Education: That which discloses to the wise and disguises from the foolish their lack of understanding. Ambrose Bierce
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Wisdom recognises truth

• Wisdom is only found in truth. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• There is no wisdom save in truth. Martin Luther
• Truth is superior to man’s wisdom. Mahatma Gandhi
• Distrust my wisdom, but regard my truth. Maria Gowen Brooks
• Philosopher: A lover of wisdom, which is to say, Truth. Voltaire
• God give me the wisdom to see the truth however contrary to my established beliefs. Robert Quillen
• Truth exists for the wise, beauty for the feeling heart. Friedrich von Schiller
• The searching-out and thorough investigation of truth ought to be the primary study of man. Cicero
• The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices. Frederick II, the Great
• When you give your children knowledge, you are telling them what to think. When you give your children wisdom, you do not tell them what to know, or what is true, but, rather, how to get to their own truth. Neale Donald Walsch
• It is noble to seek truth, and it is beautiful to find it. It is the ancient feeling of the human heart–that knowledge is better than riches; and it is deeply and sacredly true.  Sydney Smith
• The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. Johann Kaspar Lavater
• And is there anything more closely connected with wisdom than truth? Plato
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Wisdom recognises illusion

• Wisdom comes by disillusionment. George Santayana
• Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth. Ludwig Borne
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Wisdom anticipates and foresees

• Wisdom consists not so much in seeing as in foreseeing. Hosea Ballou
• Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences. Norman Cousins
• We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.  George Bernard Shaw
• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. Vernon Cooper
• Cunning is seeing a hundred yards ahead–wisdom, fifty miles in advance. Charles William
• How poor is the wisdom of men, and how uncertain their forecast! St. Theresa
• Wisdom consists, not in seeing what is directly before us, but in discerning those things which may come to pass. Terence
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Wisdom knows what to ignore and eliminate

• The prince who would know all, must ignore much. Domitius Afer
• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. John Buchan
• The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook. William James
• 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 Yutang
• To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu
• An intelligent man believes only half of what he hears, a wise man knows which half. Evan Esar
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen Proverb
• Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest. Bruce Lee
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Wisdom knows itself

• Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Lao Tzu
• Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is enlightenment. Lao Tzu
• He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise. Lao Tzu
• Who knows whence he comes, where he is, and whither he tends, he, and he alone, is wise. Johann Caspar Lavater
• Full wise is he that can himself know. Geoffrey Chaucer
• Wise men know each other. Edward Counsel

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Wisdom observes

• Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant
• The foolish reject what they see, not what they think; the wise reject what they think, not what they see. . . . Observe things as they are and don’t pay attention to other people. Huang-Po
• Every wise man lives in an observatory. Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles
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Wisdom listens

• It is the province of knowledge to speak And it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. Oliver Wendell Holmes
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk. Doug Larson
• Talk less. Listen more. Tune in to eternal wisdom from deep within. Philip Arnold
• Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non- conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. Eckhart Tolle
• Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there. Mehmet Murat ildan
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Wisdom knows when to keep its mouth shut

• The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it. Frank M. Garafola
• Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something. Plato
• A wise old owl sat on an oak, The more he saw the less he spoke; The less he spoke the more he heard; Why aren’t we like that wise old bird?  Edward Hersey Richards
• The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue. Ivan Panin
• You may not have very much sense. But if you have enough to keep your mouth shut and look wise, it will not be long before you acquire a wide reputation as a fountain of Wisdom. Robert Elliott Gonzales
• The difference between a wise and foolish man is this–the former sees much, thinks much, and speaks little; but the latter speaks more than he either sees or thinks. William Scott Downey
• Wisdom is first and foremost needed to discern when to speak, and when not to. Rene Camilleri
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Wisdom never stops learning …

• Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn. Charles De Lint
• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity. Sophocles
• Wisdom’s door is ever open. Edward Counsel
• The wise may find in trifles light as atoms in the air, some useful lesson to enrich the mind. John Godfrey Saxe
• A man remains ignorant because he loves ignorance, and chooses ignorant thoughts; a man becomes wise because he loves wisdom and chooses wise thoughts. James Allen
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day. Zen Proverb
• 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
• When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. Isaac Asimov
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… and applies what it learns

• Wisdom is not learning merely; it is learning with ability and disposition to use it. E. P. Day

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Wisdom learns from those who have gone before …

• Within our consciousness is contained the wisdom of the ancestors, learned on their own explorations. Christ died for my sins. Buddha became enlightened so I, too, could become enlightened. Black Elk had visions so I could share his visions. We are all one tribe. We who live today receive the benefit of every spiritual act from every person who has ever lived. The river of consciousness flows through the minds of all, past and present. John Kehoe
• Pay attention and listen to the sayings of the wise. Bible
• Do not despise the lore that has come down from distant years; for oft it may chance that old wives keep in memory word of things that once were needful for the wise to know. R.R. Tolkien
• A library of wisdom, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it. Whoever therefore claims to be zealous of truth, of happiness, of wisdom or knowledge, must become a lover of books. Richard de Bury
• The next thing to having wisdom ourselves, is to profit by that of others. Charles Caleb Colton

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… and those alive today

• A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study. Chinese Proverb
• Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.   Doug Larson
• I hold myself indebted to any one from whose enlightened understanding another ray of knowledge communicates to mine. Really to inform the mind is to correct and enlarge the heart. Junius
• Who is wise? Those who learn from everyone. Benjamin Franklin
• A single conversation with a wise man during the eating of a meal, is better than ten years’ mere study of books. Chinese Proverb

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Wisdom learns from quotations

• The teachings of elegant sayings should be collected when one can. For the supreme gift of words of wisdom, any price will be paid.  Nāgārjuna
• Collections of quotations are an elemental model of how culture is perpetuated, the wisdom of the tribe passed on to posterity, to be added to, edited, and modified by subsequent generations. Robert Andrews
• Most collectors collect tangibles. As a quotation collector, I collect wisdom, life, invisible beauty, souls alive in ink. Terri Guillemets
• In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates. Willis Goth Regier
• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations. Isaac Disraeli
• The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation’s proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations. William Feather
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Wisdom cultivates itself

• Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. Hosea Ballou
• The knowledge and experience which produce wisdom can only become a man’s individual possession and property by his own free action; and it is as futile to expect these without laborious, painstaking effort, as it is to hope to gather a harvest where the seed has not been sown. Samuel Smiles
• We must attain wisdom as we go upstairs, one step at a time. Tsze-Kung
• In an active life is sown the seed of wisdom; but he who reflects not, never reaps. Edward Young
• No man was ever wise by chance. Seneca

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Wisdom cannot be imparted but must be discovered for oneself

• Wisdom cannot be imparted. Wisdom that a wise man attempts to impart always sounds like foolishness to someone else … Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and teach it. Hermann Hesse
• 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. Herman Hesse
• We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom. Michel de Montaigne
• Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass’d from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. Walt Whitman
• We can be knowledgeable with other people’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other people’s wisdom. Michel de Montaigne
• We do not receive wisdom– we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey through the wilderness which no one else can make for us, which no one can spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world. Marcel Proust
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Wisdom grows from personal experience …

• Wisdom is the daughter of experience. Leonardo da Vinci
• Wisdom is mostly the fruit of experience. Edward Counsel
• All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, till they take root in our personal experience. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Experience is the only prophecy of wise men. Alphonse de Lamartine
• In the deep, unwritten wisdom of life there are many things to be learned that cannot be taught. We never know them by hearing them spoken, but we grow into them by experience and recognize them through understanding. Anthony Hope
• Information’s pretty thin stuff unless mixed with experience. Clarence Day
• Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue. Edith Wharton
• Nothing becomes real till it is experienced. Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life is illustrated by it.  ohn Keats
• People are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. George Bernard Shaw
• The experience to be gathered from books, though often valuable, is but of the nature of learning whereas the experience gained from actual life, is of the nature of wisdom and a small store of the latter is worth vastly more than a stock of the former. Samuel Smiles
• There are many truths of which the full meaning cannot be realized until personal experience has brought it home. John Stuart Mill
• Time is not the great teacher. Experience is. A man may live a whole life, but if he never leaves his home to experience that life, he dies knowing nothing. A mere child who has suffered and lived can be the wiser of the two. Lynsay Sands
• Wisdom is knowledge which is experience and therefore life; the quest of wisdom is in reality the quest of life. J. van der Leeuw
• Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning…and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom. Bergen Evens
• Wisdom is not to be obtained from textbooks, but must be coined out of human experience in the flame of life. Morris Raphael Cohen
• Wisdom is digested experience… Janesville Daily Gazette
• Wisdom begins at the end. Daniel Webster
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… although the lessons of experiences can be expensive

• It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience. Roger Ascham
• The experience of others adds to our knowledge, but not to our wisdom; that is dearer bought. Hosea Ballou
• By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. Confucius
• Of all the forms of wisdom, hindsight is by general consent the least merciful, the most unforgiving. John Fletcher
• Wisdom comes to us when it can no longer do any good. Gabriel García Márquez

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Wisdom grows from foolishness …

• Our wisdom comes from our experience, and our experience comes from our foolishness. Sacha Guitry
• Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom. Terry Pratchett
• There is no man … however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man — so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise — unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded. Marcel Proust
• The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you’ve been. Evan Esar
• In much wisdom is much grief. Bible, Ecclesiastes 1:18
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… and from the lessons from mistakes and failure

• This world is your best teacher. There is a lesson in everything. There is a lesson in each experience. Learn it and become wise. Every failure is a stepping stone to success. Every difficulty or disappointment is a trial of your faith. Every unpleasant incident or temptation is a test of your inner strength. Therefore nil desperandum. March forward hero! Sivananda Saraswati
• Some of the best lessons we ever learn, we learn from our mistakes and failures. The error of the past, is the wisdom and success of the future. Tyron Edwards
• Your development towards wisdom is a process of experimentation, trial and error, so it’s inevitable things will not always go to plan or turn out how you’d want. Compassion is the remedy for harsh judgement – of ourselves and others. Cherie Carter- Scott
• We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do by finding out what will not do. And probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. Samuel Smiles
• The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account. Richard R. Grant
• Having harvested all the knowledge and wisdom we can from our mistakes and failures, we should put them behind us and go ahead, for vain regretting interferes with the flow of power into our own personalities. Edith Johnson
• Mistakes are the usual bridge between inexperience and wisdom. Phyllis Therous
• Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar. William Wordsworth
• Life is one long experiment in learning. Who can be perfect all the time? Sometimes I feel half- wise, sometimes half- stupid.  Terri Guillemets
• We should never be ashamed to own we have been in the wrong, which is but saying in other words, that we are wiser today than we were yesterday. Jonathan Swift
• Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know.   William Saroyan
• Beware of a leader who doesn’t have scars or walk with a limp. One of the characteristics of a great leader is wisdom, and the best way to get wisdom is through experience. Normally that experience includes a few failures — that’s where battle scars and limps come from. Ingar Grev
• Mistakes,  Failure

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Wisdom learns from the experience and mistakes of others

• Better to be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. Aesop
• Is there anyone so wise as to learn by the experience of others? Voltaire

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Wisdom is humble …

• It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. Mahatma Gandhi
• Be very slow to believe that you are wiser than all others; it is a fatal but common error. Charles Caleb Colton
• Great is the number of those who might attain true wisdom if they did not already think themselves wise. Eliza Cook
• To grow wiser means to learn to know better and better the faults to which this instrument with which we feel and judge can be subject. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
• The kind of man who always thinks that he is right, that his opinions, his pronouncements, are the final word, when once exposed shows nothing there. But a wise man has much to learn without a loss of dignity. Sophocles
• A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool. Martin Farquhar Tupper
• If you desire to be wiser yet, think yourself not yet wise. Wellins Calcott
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… realising it can blunder

• The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine. Benjamin Franklin
• A wise man who cultivates wisdom may sometimes drown in it. Eiji Yoshikawa
• The extreme limit of wisdom — that’s what the public calls madness. Jean Cocteau
• There is no folly like the folly of the wise. Jacqueline Carey
• He that is conceited of his Wisdom, is readier to impose Error, than to receive Truth. Benjamin Whichcote

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Only fools think they are wise

• Only fools think they’re wise; the rest of us just muddle through as we can. Charles De Lint
• He that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool. Charles Caleb Colton

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Wisdom recognises how little it knows

• Such is true wisdom and humility; for the more a man really knows, the less conceited he will be. Samuel Smiles
• I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing. Socrates
• True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing. Socrates
• True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us. Socrates
• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
• True wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance. Anthony de Mello
• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance. Benjamin Franklin
• The Delphic Oracle said that I was the wisest of all the Greeks. It is because I alone of all the Greeks know that I know nothing. Socrates
• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper
• Whoever undertakes to set himself up as a judge of Truth and Knowledge is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods. Albert Einstein
• They say that the more a person learns, the more they find there is to learn. Therefore the smarter you think you are, the dumber you really are. Chris Hamono
• You can never know everything. Part of what you know is always wrong. Perhaps the most important part. A portion of wisdom lies in knowing that. A portion of knowledge lies in going on anyway. Robert Jordan
• In humility alone lies true greatness, and knowledge and wisdom are profitable only in so far as our lives are governed by them. Nicholas of Cusa
• It is better to have but little knowledge with humility and understanding, than great learning which might make you proud. Thomas a Kempis
• The first and wisest of them all professed To know this only, that he nothing knew. John Milton
• Wisdom is also a deeper consciousness of ignorance. Austin O’Malley
• The more I see, the less I know for sure. John Lennon

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True wisdom knows what it does know

• All wisdom consists in this, not to think that we know what we do not know. Houng-Wou
• Was not this … what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom — to know what is known and what is unknown to us? Plato
• The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference–the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. Charles Caleb Colton

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Wisdom sometimes chooses to conceal itself

• He’s a Fool that cannot conceal his Wisdom. Benjamin Franklin
• It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish. Aeschylus

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Wisdom remains open minded to the wisdom of others…

• Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. Merry Browne
• Even as you grow wiser and wiser with age you must remind yourself that an understanding is never absolutely final. What’s currently right could easily be wrong later.  Thus, the most destructive illusion is a settled point of view.  Since life is continuous growth and movement, choosing a fixed point of view is essentially a declaration of death.  Marc and Angel Chernoff
• There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment. Malcolm Hein
• We begin to learn wisely when we’re willing to see world from other people’s perspective. Toba Beta
• A simple realization that there are other points of view is the beginning of wisdom. Grenville Kleiser
• Wisdom’s door is ever open. Edward Counsel
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… knowing that all are wise in something

• No man has all the wisdom in the world; everyone has some. Edgar Watson Howe
• Every person on earth has something to contribute, and that wisdom is a shared reality. Elad Nehorai

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Wisdom is willing to change its mind

• True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Robert Dodsley

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Wisdom understands when to ask questions

• The fool wonders, the wise man asks. Benjamin Disraeli
• You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions. Naguib Mahfouz
• The first key to wisdom is this–constant and frequent questioning . . . for by doubting we are led to question and by questioning we arrive at the truth. Peter Abelard
• Wisdom is understanding when to ask questions. Brian Herbert
• A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer. Bruce Lee
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Wisdom asks for advice if it is needed

• Let men be wise by instinct if they can, but when this fails be wise by good advice. Sophocles
• The wisest man is he who does not require advice. Edward Counsel
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Wisdom is patient and deliberate …

• Inner peace is impossible without patience. Wisdom requires patience. Spiritual growth implies the mastery of patience. Patience allows the unfolding of destiny to proceed at its own unhurried pace. Brian L. Weiss
• Patience is the companion of wisdom.   Augustine
• All human wisdom is summed up in two words – wait and hope. Alexandre Dumas Père
• Second thoughts are ever wiser. Euripides
• How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise! Homer
• Wisdom makes but a slow defense against trouble, though at last a sure one. Oliver Goldsmith
• It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it. Plautus
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… then throws itself into action

• The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. M. Scott Peck
• Wisdom is knowing what to do next, virtue is doing it. David Star Jordan      
• The wise man does at once what the fool does finally. Baltasar Gracian
• The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying. Norman Douglas
• Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through.  Jarod Kintz
• Dare to be wise: begin! Those who postpone the hour of living rightly are like the rustic who waits for the river to run out before he crosses, yet on it glides, and will glide forever. Horace
• The wise are known by their actions; fame and immortality are ever their attendants. Johann Gaudenz Von Salis-Seewis
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Wisdom has good judgement

• Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it. Doug Larson
• Wisdom is a right understanding, a faculty of discerning good from evil, what is to be chosen and what rejected; a judgment grounded upon the true value of things, and not the common opinion of them. Wellins Calcott
• The wise form right judgment of the present from what is past. Sophocles
• The first point of wisdom is to discern what is false; the second, to know what is true. Lactantius
• Wisdom consists in being able to distinguish among dangers and make a choice of the least harmful. Niccolo Machiavelli
• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly. Norman Macdonald
• Wisdom always makes men fortunate: for by wisdom no man could ever err, and therefore he must act rightly and succeed, or his wisdom would be wisdom no longer. Plato
• Wisdom is less about academic intelligence, cognitive abilities or analytical skills, although these can help significantly. Instead, wisdom refers to the ability to see the “big picture” and translate one’s experience and knowledge into good judgment and decisions. David Chan
• The toughest test of good judgment is to know when to withhold your better judgment. Robert Brault
• Wisdom is a safe ship; and we may trust ourselves to it in all weathers. Edward Counsel

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Wisdom is common sense in uncommon degree

• Common sense is often practical wisdom acquired through past experience. The art of common sense is applying the best wisdom we know today based on all our yesterdays.  Wilferd A. Peterson
• Wisdom is common sense in an uncommon degree.  Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Part of having uncommon sense, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You’ve got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn’t cluttered with them. That way, you’re better able to pick up a few sensible things to do. Charles Munger
• To act with common sense, according to the moment, is the best wisdom I know. Horatio Walpole
• Perfect good sense shuns all extremity, content to couple wisdom with sobriety. Moliere
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Wisdom is true and beautiful

• Why is wisdom so fair? Why is beauty so wise? Because all else is temporary, while beauty and wisdom are the only real and constant aspects of truth that can be perceived by human means.  And I don’t mean the kind of surface beauty that fades with age, or the sort of shallow wisdom that gets lost in platitudes.  True beauty grips your gut and squeezes your lungs, and makes you see with utmost clarity exactly what is before you.  True wisdom then steps in, to interpret, illuminate, and form a life- altering insight.  Vera Nazarian
• Wisdom is ever fresh; other things grow stale, but this is the evergreen flower of nature. Edward Counsel
• Many things imperfect by nature are made perfect by wisdom. Niccolo Uzzano
• It’s a beautiful thing, the blossoming of Wisdom. Like a flower in spring. Michael Rudd
• How bright and transparent the moonlight of wisdom.  Hakuin
• Wisdom is the most beautiful ornament of the human race. Anna Mariae
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Wisdom is kind and generous

• The truly generous is the truly wise, and he who loves not others, lives unblest.  Henry Home
• The wise man does not lay up his own treasures. The more he gives to others, the more he has for his own. Lao- tzu
• Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D.
• Those who have the largest hearts have the soundest understandings; and they are the truest philosophers who can forget themselves. William Hazlitt
• Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh, and the greatness which does not bow before children. Khalil Gibran
• What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness? Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Wisdom gives back

• The wealth of mankind is the wisdom they leave. John Boyle O’reilly
• Gaining wisdom is a wonderful thing. Giving it back is better. Mike Bell
• One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly. Edward C. Steadman
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Wisdom knows how to be happy, content and fulfilled

• I hold those wise who know how to be happy. Ninon de Lenclos
• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom. Akhenaton
• Be happy. It’s one way of being wise.  Colette
• There is no happiness where there is no wisdom. Sophocles
• The wise man thinks about his troubles only when there is some purpose in doing so; at other times he thinks about other things. Bertrand Russell
• We judge of man’s wisdom by his hope. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead. Deepak Chopra
• It is impossible to live pleasurably without living wisely, well and justly, and impossible to live wisely, well and justly without living pleasurably. Epicurus
• The clearest sign of wisdom is continued cheerfulness. Michel de Montaigne
• To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not. Akhenaton
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Wisdom appreciates and embraces life, especially the simple things

• Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find someone’s hand and squeeze it, while there’s still time. Dale Dauten
• Only the wise person draws from life, and from every stage of it, its true savour, because only he or she feels the beauty, the dignity, and the value of life. The flowers of youth may fade, but the summer, the autumn, and even the winter of human existence, have their majestic grandeur, which the wise person recognizes and glorifies.  Amiel
• Wisdom comes most easily to those who have the courage to embrace life without judgment and are willing to not know, sometimes for a long time. It requires us to be more fully and simply alive than we have been taught to be. It may require us to suffer.  But ultimately we will be more than we were when we began.  There is the seed of a greater wholeness in everyone. Rachel Naomi Remen
• A bulging portfolio of spiritual experiences matters little if it does not have the power to sustain us through the inevitable moments of grief, loss, and change. Knowledge and achievements matter little if we do not yet know how to touch the heart of another and be touched. Wisdom is alive only as long as it is lived, understanding is liberating only as long as it is applied. Jack Kornfield
• To be a philosopher is not merely to have subtle thoughts, nor even to found a school, but so to love wisdom as to live, according to its dictates, a life of simplicity, independence, magnanimity, and trust. Henry David Thoreau
• Gratitude is a form of wisdom. It is patient, loving, hopeful, and rigorously honest. It denies nothing, and it overlooks nothing. It looks reality full in the face and says: This is true, this is me, this is my situation, and I have the opportunity to build from here. This is my starting point, and I will succeed! Phil Humbert
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Wisdom has perspective on life

• Wisdom is your perspective on life, your sense of balance, your understanding of how the various parts and principles apply and relate to each other. Stephen Covey
• Every now and again take a good look at something not made with hands – a mountain, a star, the turn of a stream. There will come to you wisdom and patience and solace and, above all, the assurance that you are not alone in the world. Sidney Lovett
• We begin to learn wisely when we’re willing to see world from other people’s perspective. Toba Beta
• Wisdom is the perception of the unimportance of the things we call great, and of the importance of the things we call small. Charles Edward Jerningham
• I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest. John Buchan
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Wisdom conquers fear

• The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom. Bertrand Russell
• Wisdom is the only thing which can relieve us from the sway of the passions and the fear of danger, and which can teach us to bear the injuries of fortune itself with moderation, and which shows us all the ways which lead to tranquility and peace. Cicero
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Wisdom dares to be a fool

• The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. William Shakespeare
• Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit. Elbert Hubbard
• He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom. James Gibbons Huneker
• The cleverest of all, in my opinion, is the man who calls himself a fool at least once a month. Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Wisdom goes deeper than knowledge

• Remember, information is not knowledge; knowledge is not wisdom; wisdom is not truth; truth is not beauty; beauty is not love; love is not music; music is the best. Frank Zappa
• The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. Isaac Asimov
• There are subjects in which I wish to become knowledgeable, and subjects in which I wish to remain wise. Robert Brault
• To attain knowledge, add things everyday. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao Tzu
• To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal Saint Augustine
• Wisdom equals knowledge plus courage. You have to not only know what to do and when to do it, but you have to also be brave enough to follow through. Jarod Kintz
• Wisdom sets bounds even to knowledge. Friedrich Nietzsche
• Learned men fall into error oftenest by mistaking knowledge for wisdom. Austin O’Malley
• At one time we had wisdom, but little knowledge. Now we have a great deal of knowledge, but do we have enough wisdom to deal with that knowledge? Jonas Salk
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Without wisdom, knowledge is useless

• Knowledge without wisdom is a load of books on the back of an ass. Japanese Proverb
• Abundance of knowledge does not teach a person to be wise. Heraclitus

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Wisdom is knowledge plus life experience

• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace
• Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. Albert Einstein
• Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age. Proverb
• To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. Marilyn vos Savant
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Wisdom is knowledge practically applied

• Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom. Charles H. Spurgeon
• Wisdom is knowledge rightly applied. We assimilate lots of knowledge. Whether or not we do anything with that knowledge is a measure of our wisdom. Hyrum W. Smith
• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being. Orison Swett Marden
• Knowledge is flour, but wisdom is bread. Austin O’Malley
• Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone. Horace

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Wisdom is knowledge distilled and synthesised

• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. Martin Fischer
• To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day. Lao- Tzu
• Knowledge comes by taking things apart: analysis. But wisdom comes by putting things together. John A. Morrison
• Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass
• We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely. Edward O. Wilson
• Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?  Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?  S. Eliot
• The aim of existence is ‘a distillation of the widest possible experience of life into wisdom’. Wilhelm von Humboldt
• Hitherto, data was seen as only the first step in a long chain of intellectual activity. Humans were supposed to distil data into information, information into knowledge, and knowledge into wisdom. Yuval Noah Harari
• For knowledge, add something every day. For wisdom….subtract. Laozi
• Absorb what is useful, disregard the rest. Bruce Lee
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Wisdom uses knowledge to live a fuller life

• Our age is being forcibly reminded that knowledge is no substitute for wisdom. Far and away the most important thing in human life is living it. Frank R. Barry
• Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life. Sandra Carey
• Wisdom without love is like having lungs but no air to breathe. Do not seek wisdom in order to acquire knowledge but in order to live and love more fully. Adyashanti
• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. Immanuel Kant

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More thoughts on knowledge verse wisdom

• Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. Alfred Lord Tennyson
• Knowledge is being aware that fire can burn; wisdom is remembering the blister.
• Knowledge is knowing a tomato is a fruit; wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad. Peter Kay
• Knowledge is learning something new every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
• Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; Wisdom is humble that he knows no more. William Cowper
• Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. Jimi Hendrix
• The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt
• 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 Hesse
• These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. Vernon Cooper
• Knowledge is measuring that a desert path is 12.4 miles long. Wisdom is packing enough water for the hike. Insight is building a lemonade stand at mile 6.  Christopher Reiss
• You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don’t put tomato in a fruit salad. Gene Kesselman
• Knowing how to make a banana pudding is knowledge, but wisdom is knowing if others appreciate your efforts. Larry Efird

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Wisdom is found in calmness and equanimity

• Equanimity supports wisdom because when the mind doesn’t shake, we can stay with the truth of things long enough to have a deep insight. Shaila Catherine
• 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
• We need to find the “middle way” in our own lives. It is the art of finding balance.  Reflecting upon our lives, we soon discover what serves us well–nurturing calmness, ease, and simplicity.  We also discover what it is that leads to entanglement, confusion, distress, and anxiety.  Wisdom is being able to discern the difference, then knowing what we need to nurture and what we need to learn to let go.  Christina Feldman
• The Chinese word for “busy” is composed of two characters: “heart” and “killing.” When we make ourselves so busy that we are always rushing around trying to get this or that “done” or “over with,” we kill something vital in ourselves, and we smother the quiet wisdom in our heart. Brother Steindhl- Rast
• The poor long for riches and the rich for heaven, but the wise long for a state of tranquillity. Swami Rama
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Wisdom is found in stillness

• Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions. Eckhart Tolle
• When we let go of the thinking mind, we become open to insight—to what in spirituality we might call revelation, or the spontaneous arising of a deep wisdom or a deep knowing. Adyashanti
• Wisdom grows in quiet places. Austin O’Malley
• Stillness, insight, and wisdom arise only when we can settle into being complete in this moment, without having to seek or hold on to or reject anything. Jon Kabat-Zinn   
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• The only factor preventing us from hearing or being connected to our inner wisdom is the noise or chatter of our own thinking. When we turn the “volume” of our thining down, we can begin to sense a deeper intelligence. This is reflection. Richard Carlson
• Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom. Zen proverb
• Only in the oasis of silence can we drink deeply from the inner cup of wisdom. Sue Patton Thoele
• Talk less. Listen more. Tune in to eternal wisdom from deep within. Philip Arnold
• Our minds are like a large vase of water with sand in it that has been stirred up. After some time of stillness, the sand settles, clarifying the water and allowing us to see. The resulting clarity, which is beyond concept, is wisdom beyond concept. M. Gunder
• There is little room left for wisdom when one is full of judgment. Malcolm Hein
• The voice of wisdom is inherent within us and willing to guide us when we stop to listen. Of course, there are times when we feel we’ve been still as stone, and the still, small voice is still too quiet to hear.  When this happens, the challenge is to practice quieting your mind anyway.  Stopping and asking, quieting and listening, trusting and waiting.  Waiting is difficult but worth the effort because a quiet, uncluttered mind is a natural antenna for whispers of wisdom from within.  Sue Patton Thoele
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Wisdom is found in reason and clear thinking

• Wise men are instructed by reason; men of less understanding, by experience; the most ignorant, by necessity; and beasts, by nature. Cicero
• Wisdom is the never-failing granary of thought. Edward Counsel
• A wise man … proportions his belief to the evidence. David Hume
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Wisdom is found in intuition …

• Follow your instincts. That’s where true wisdom manifests itself. Oprah Winfrey
• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
• Information is just bits of data. Knowledge is putting them together. Wisdom is transcending them. Ram Dass
• Trust your intuitive heart. Open your eyes and heart to your greatest source of wisdom and grace. Set aside a little quiet time to clear your mind and listen. Pay attention only to the calm thoughts and feelings that surface. Richard Carlson
• Each one of us has all the wisdom and knowledge we ever need right within us. It is available to us through our intuitive mind, which is our connection with universal intelligence. Shakti Gawain
• There is a wise being living inside of you. It is your intuitive self. Focus your awareness into a deep place in your body, a place where your “gut feelings” reside. You can communicate with it by silently talking to it, making requests, or asking questions. Then relax, don’t think too hard with your mind, and be open to receiving answers. They are usually very simple and relate to the present moment, not the past or the future, and they feel right.  Shakti Gawain
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… in the feelings of the heart

• The seat of knowledge is in the head, of wisdom, in the heart. William Hazlitt
• There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart. Charles Dickens
• The heart is wiser than the intellect. Josiah Holland
• A loving heart is the truest wisdom. Charles Dickens
• The seat of knowledge is in the head; of wisdom, in the heart. We are sure to judge wrong if we do not feel right.  William Hazlitt
• Each of us knows all. We need only open our minds to hear our own wisdom. Dan Brown
• Wisdom is the olive that springeth from a heart, bloometh on the tongue, and beareth fruit in the actions. Grymestone
• The more room you give yourself to express your true thoughts and feelings, the more room there is for your wisdom to emerge.  Marianne Williamson
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Wisdom is found in the body

• A trembling in the bones may carry a more convincing testimony than the dry documented deductions of the brain. Llewelyn Powers
• I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the teaching my blood whispers to me. Herman Hesse
• Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense. Henry Miller
• Everything you’ll ever need to know is within you; the secrets of the universe are imprinted on the cells of your body. But you haven’t learned how to read the wisdom of the body. Dan Millman
• Sometimes your body is smarter than you are.
• The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth, little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance, little to do with division and analysis and much to do with union. Marilyn Sewell
• The body is wiser than its inhabitants. The body is the soul. The body is God’s messenger. Erica Jong
• There is a wisdom in the body that is older and more reliable than clocks and calendars. John Harold Johnson
• There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophies.  Friedrich Nietzche
• Wouldn’t it be wonderful to have a wise and intuitive counselor available 24/7? You’re in luck–you already have one. Your body!  Our bodies carry ancient wisdom.  We literally live within a temple of intuitive and instinctive wisdom. Sometimes we pay attention and access body wisdom; but unfortunately, the aphorism “Mrs. Smith lived a short distance from her body” is sadly true for many of us.  Sue Patton Thoele
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Wisdom is found in joy and delight

• When we are centered in joy, we attain our wisdom. Marianne Williamson
• You will find truth more quickly through delight than gravity. Let out a little more string on your kite. Alan Cohen
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Wisdom is found in goodness

• But goodness alone is never enough. A hard, cold wisdom is required for goodness to accomplish good. Goodness without wisdom always accomplishes evil. Robert A. Heinlein
• Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. William Saroyan
• In goodness there are all kinds of wisdom. Euripides
• It is from reason that justice springs, but goodness is born of wisdom. Maurice Maeterlinck
• Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart must hold both sisters, never seen apart. William Dean Howells
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Wisdom is found through pain

• The wisdom that comes from having experienced heartbreak cannot be bequeathed; it can only be gained through experience. And having truly felt it, we are far more likely to have compassion for others.  Anything that takes us close to true compassion takes us closer to what will one day be an experience of even greater joy.  Marianne Williamson
• Wisdom is nothing more than healed pain. Robert Gary Lee
• ‘Tis held that sorrow makes us wise. Alfred Lord Tennyson
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Wisdom is often found in the old …

• 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
• In youth we learn; in age we understand. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
• The years teach much which the days never knew. Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Old places and old persons in their turn, when spirit dwells in them, have an intrinsic vitality of which youth is incapable; precisely the balance and wisdom that comes from long perspectives and broad foundations. George Santayana
• Youth is the time to study wisdom; old age is the time to practice it. Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Time ripens all things. No one is born wise. Cervantes
• No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful. Ernest Hemingway
• The man of wisdom is the man of years. Edward Young
• How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles. Bill Veeck
• Age is the price of wisdom. Proverb
• The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

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… but not always

• It is not hoary hairs that bring wisdom; some have an old head on young shoulders. Menander
• Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.   Tom Wilson
• In youth men are apt to write more wisely than they really know or feel; and the remainder of life may be not idly spent in realizing and convincing themselves of the wisdom which they uttered long ago. Nathaniel Hawthorne
• To have lived long does not necessarily imply the gathering of much wisdom and experience. One who has pedaled twenty-five thousand miles on a stationary bicycle has not circled the globe. He or she has only garnered weariness. Paul Eldridge
• It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom. Philip Moeller
• As we get older, we should get wiser automatically, as the result of our experiences and learning throughout life. That doesn’t always happen. Even when we try hard, we sometimes make errors in judgement. Learning from those errors is part of becoming wiser. Dorothy Turcotte

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Wisdom is found in necessity

• Necessity teaches wisdom, while prosperity makes fools. Wellins Calcott

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True wisdom is just

• Justice without wisdom is impossible. James Anthony Froude
• Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom. Cicero
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True wisdom is paradoxical

• All wisdom ends in paradox. Jeffrey Eugenides
• Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true. Robert Brault

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True wisdom is rare

• Wisdom is an endless tower. Who but One hath ever attained the summit? Edward Counsel
• The road to true wisdom has seldom been spanned by mortals. Edward Counsel

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True wisdom is durable

• We see then how far the monuments of wit and learning are more durable than the monuments of power, or of the hands. For have not the verses of Homer continued twenty-five hundred years, or more, without the loss of a syllable or letter; during which time infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities have been decayed and demolished?  Francis Bacon

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True wisdom is timeless

• Wisdom is wisdom, wherever found. G. David Nordley
• Mixing one’s wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably. Bertolt Brecht

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True wisdom is in nature

• Mothers, teach your children this. Teach your children that Wisdom is everywhere. In pieces. Some of the Wisdom is in the trees, some of the Wisdom is with the animals. Some of the Wisdom is with the planets and the stars and the moons and the sun. Some of the Wisdom flows with the waters. Some of the Wisdom was with our ancestors. Some of the Wisdom is in our minds. All of the Wisdom is from the Spirit of God. Esther Davis-Thompson
• Never, no, never did Nature say one thing and Wisdom say another. Edmund Burke
• Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another. Juvenal, Satires
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True wisdom is discreet

• The first principle of solid wisdom is discretion, without it all the erudition of life is merely bagatelle. Norman Macdonald
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True wisdom stands up for and lives by what it believes

• The first step to wisdom is to be sure one says and does what one believes. Pam Brown
• It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it. A.A. Hodge
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Characteristics of the wise

• Seven characteristics distinguish the wise: they do not speak in the presence of those wiser than themselves, do not interrupt, are not hasty to answer, ask and answer the point, talk about first things first and last things last, admit when they do not know, and acknowledge the truth.  The Talmud
• The wise stand out, because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine, because they don’t want to impress.  They achieve great things, because they don’t look for recognition.  Their wisdom is contained in what they are, not their opinions.  They refuse to argue, so no-one argues with them.  Lao Tzu
• A wise person will make more opportunities than he or she finds. Francis Bacon
• If I’m wise, I won’t worry about growing old, for I know that there’s a time for everything. I won’t worry about whether someone likes me or not, for I know that all things can’t be.  I won’t worry about the things that I don’t have, for not having them diminishes me not one bit.  I won’t worry about the future and regret the past, for I know that only the present moment truly matters, for it’s all that we can live.  If I’m wise, I will keep my eyes open and notice things that other people pass by or dismiss as trivial.  I will stop and smell the flowers and marvel at the snow and ice.  I will give of myself as much as I can, knowing that in giving comes our true growth.  I will be grateful for each new day of life that I receive, for I know that each day is a gift, and it’s up to me to make something of that gift. Tom Walsh

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Wisdom verse folly

• A man’s wisdom is his best friend; folly, his worst enemy. Sir William Temple
• The hours of folly are measured by the clock, but of wisdom no clock can measure. William Blake
• We disgrace wisdom when we would strive to support it with folly. Edward Counsel
• When wisdom leaves the house folly enters it. Edward Counsel
• Where ignorance is bliss, ‘Tis folly to be wise. Thomas Gray
• Folly is like the growth of weeds, always luxurious and spontaneous; wisdom, like flowers, requires cultivation. Hosea Ballou
• The most exquisite Folly is made of Wisdom spun too fine. Benjamin Franklin
• There is no folly like the folly of the wise. Jacqueline Carey
• True wisdom is less presuming than folly; the wise man doubteth often, and changeth his mind; the fool is obstinate, and doubteth not; he knoweth all things but his own ignorance. Robert Dodsley
• The beginning of wisdom is the knowledge of folly. Norman Macdonald
• Part of having uncommon sense, I think, is being able to tune out folly, as distinguished from recognizing wisdom. You’ve got whole categories of things you just bat away so your brain isn’t cluttered with them. That way, you’re better able to pick up a few sensible things to do. Charles Munger
• A wise man who stands firm is a statesman; a foolish man who stands firm is a catastrophe. Adlai Stevenson
• Like gold in the hands of a savage are the sayings of wisdom in the mouth of a fool. Edward Counsel
• The wise man has his follies, no less than the fool; but it has been said that herein lies the difference–the follies of the fool are known to the world, but hidden from himself; the follies of the wise are known to himself, but hidden from the world. Charles Caleb Colton
• A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
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• 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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