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Wisdom

«Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.»
«Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body»
Author: De Saint-Real | About: Body, Health, Soul, Wisdom
«Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.»
Author: Doug Larson | About: Wisdom | Keywords: preferred
«Wisdom never lies»
Author: Homer | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom sails with wind and time»
Author: John Florio | About: Wisdom | Keywords: sails, wind, wisdom
«Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.»
Author: Herbert Hoover (President) | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom is the winner over good luck»
Author: Juvenal | About: Luck, Wisdom | Keywords: good luck
«Wisdom is too high for a fool: he openeth not his mouth in the gate.»
Author: Bible | About: Wisdom
«Wisdom itself is often an abstraction associated not with fact or reality but with the man who asserts it and the manner of its assertion»
Author: John Kenneth Galbraith | About: Wisdom | Keywords: asserts
«Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.»