In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool.
Lord Chesterfield

It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.
John Steinbeck

It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.
William Ralph Inge

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.
Harold S. Geneen

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them.
Epictetus

It is the neglect of timely repair that makes rebuilding necessary.
Richard Whately

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

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Life is a travelling to the edge of knowledge, then a leap taken.
David Herbert Lawrence

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

Nature and books belong to the eyes that see them.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
George S. Patton

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
Theodore Roosevelt

No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
Marcus Tullius Cicero