"To finish the moment,
to find the journey's end
in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number
of good hours, is wisdom."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"The mintage of wisdom
is to know that rest is rust,
and that real life is in love,
laughter, and work."
-Author Unknown

"Knowledge becomes wisdom
only after it has been
put to practical use."
-Author Unknown

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation.
Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it,
while there's time."
-Dale Dauten

"Like an ability or a muscle,
hearing your inner wisdom
is strengthened by doing it."
-Robbie Gass

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

"Let us be poised, and wise,
and our own, today."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

"The art of being wise is the art
of knowing what to overlook."
-William James

"It is more easy to be wise
for others, than for ourselves."
-François de La Rochefoucauld

"The only one who is wiser
than anyone, is everyone."
-Napoleon

"This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars."
-Mrs. Barbauld

"Pain makes man think.
Thought makes man wise.
Wisdom makes life endurable."
-John Patrick

"You can tell whether a man is
clever by his answers.
You can tell whether a man is
wise by his questions."
-Mahfouz Naguib

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom:
the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
-Walter Lippman

"Wisdom begins in wonder."
-Socrates