Children also have artistic ability, and there is wisdom in there having it! The more helpless they are, the more instructive are the examples they furnish us; and they must be preserved free of corruption from an early age.
Paul Klee

Wisdom is learning what to overlook.
William James

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
Morihei Ueshiba

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.
Henry Miller

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

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

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

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.
Will Durant

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

More helpful than all wisdom is one draught of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot

In the vain laughter of folly wisdom hears half its applause.
George Eliot

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus