There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.
Francis Bacon

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.
Francis Bacon

Wisdom is a sacred communion.
Victor Hugo

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
William J. Clinton

It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed "Wisdom." And then I know exactly what is going to follow: "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when it be obeyed.
Nathaniel Hawthorne

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Putting is like wisdom - partly a natural gift and partly the accumulation of experience.
Arnold Palmer

We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
Michel de Montaigne

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.
Herbert Hoover

But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.
Edmund Burke

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.
Edmund Burke

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald

Cleverness is not wisdom.
Euripides

Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
Euripides

Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
Euripides