Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith

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

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 older I get the more wisdom I find in the ancient rule of taking first things first. A process which often reduces the most complex human problem to a manageable proportion.
Dwight D. Eisenhower

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it.
William Faulkner

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.
Sophocles

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.
Sophocles

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.
Sophocles

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.
Sophocles

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.
Hal Borland

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

I'm not wise, but the beginning of wisdom is there; it's like relaxing into - and an acceptance of - things.
Tina Turner