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

What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I'll come to you with gifts of knowledge, wisdom and truth.
Barry White

Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom is knowing when you can't be wise.
Paul Engle

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Orison Swett Marden

The plan was criticized by some retired military officers embedded in TV studios. But with every advance by our coalition forces, the wisdom of that plan becomes more apparent.
Dick Cheney

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy

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

Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside. Wisdom is an inheritance which a wastrel cannot exhaust.
Karl Kraus

I gave my beauty and my youth to men. I am going to give my wisdom and experience to animals.
Brigitte Bardot

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

No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Erica Jong

In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
Louis D. Brandeis

Love is the wisdom of the fool and the folly of the wise.
Samuel Johnson

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.
Samuel Johnson

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
Walter Lippmann