Science is always discovering odd scraps of magical wisdom and making a tremendous fuss about its cleverness.
Aleister Crowley

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.
Herman Melville

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi

Many spiritual teachers - in Buddhism, in Islam - have talked about first-hand experience of the world as an important part of the path to wisdom, to enlightenment.
Bell Hooks

To avoid entangling alliances has been a maxim of our policy ever since the days of Washington, and its wisdom no one will attempt to dispute.
James Buchanan

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

Wisdom and deep intelligence require an honest appreciation of mystery.
Thomas Moore

The Founding Fathers in their wisdom decided that children were an unnatural strain on parents. So they provided jails called schools, equipped with tortures called an education.
John Updike

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.
John Updike

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

In science, as in art, and, as I believe, in every other sphere of human activity, there may be wisdom in a multitude of counsellors, but it is only in one or two of them.
Thomas Huxley

A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Aristophanes

Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue.
Edith Wharton

The 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

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Our is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants.
Omar N. Bradley

If we continue to develop our technology without wisdom or prudence, our servant may prove to be our executioner.
Omar N. Bradley

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and hope.
Alexandre Dumas