Wisdom

(50 votes)   Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(49 votes)   A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(49 votes)   Some folks are wise and some otherwise.

Josh Billings
1815-1885, American Humorist, Lecturer

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(48 votes)   A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Mark Twain
1835-1910, American Humorist, Writer

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(48 votes)   By others faults the wise correct their own.

Proverbs

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(48 votes)   It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own.

William R. Inge

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(48 votes)   The wise man avoids evil by anticipating it.

Publilius Syrus
1st Century BC, Roman Writer

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(48 votes)   When the cats away, the mice will play.

Bob Marley
1945-1981, Jamaican Musician - songwriter, guitarist & Activist

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(48 votes)   Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Evangel

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(47 votes)   Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.

Chinese Proverbs
Sayings of Chinese Origin

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(47 votes)   Even though you know a thousand things, ask the man who knows one.

Turkish Proverbs
Sayings of Turkish Origin

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(47 votes)   Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.

Thomas Carlyle
1795-1881, Scottish Philosopher, Author

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(47 votes)   He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.

Mary Wilson Little

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(47 votes)   In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

Bible
Sacred Scriptures of Christians and Judaism

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(47 votes)   There often seems to be a playfulness to wise people, as if either their equanimity has as its source this playfulness or the playfulness flows from the equanimity; and they can persuade other people who are in a state of agitation to calm down and manage a smile.

Edward Hoagland
1932-, American Novelist, Essayist

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