Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers – Alfred Lord Tennyson.

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit – Baltasar Gracian.

Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant – Carrie Latet.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart – Charles Dickens.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil – Cicero.

Wisdom begins at the end – Daniel Webster.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it – Doug Larson.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk – Doug Larson.

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

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit – Elbert Hubbard.

To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom – Elbert Hubbard.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind – Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything – Georg C. Lichtenberg.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment – George Santayana.

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

A man is wise with the wisdom of his time only, and ignorant with its ignorance – Henry David Thoreau.

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew – Herb Caen.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life – Immanuel Kant.

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations – Isaac D’Israeli.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest – John Buchan.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another – Juvenal.

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom – Lemuel K. Washburn.

It is unwise to be too sure of one’s own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err – Mahatma Gandhi.

The perfection of wisdom, and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be a happy and a virtuous people – Mark Twain.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification – Martin H. Fischer.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom – Michel de Montaigne.

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences – Norman Cousins.

Memory is the mother of all wisdom – Samuel Johnson.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness – Sophocles.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth – Sophocles.

A short saying often contains much wisdom – Sophocles.

Patience is the companion of wisdom – St. Augustine.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom – Stephen Vincent Benet.

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

Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom – Theodore Rubin.

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself – Tom Wilson.

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future – Vernon Cooper.

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know – William Saroyan.

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar – William Wordsworth.