Wisdom

Michel de Montaigne – We can be knowledgeable …

We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.

~ Michel de Montaigne

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

~ William Shakespeare

Half of being smart is knowing what you are dumb about.

~ Solomon Short

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

~ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

One cool judgement is worth a thousand hasty counsels. The thing to do is to supply light and not heat.

~ Woodrow T. Wilson

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.

~ Lao-Tzu

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.

~ Sandara Carey

Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.

~ Lord Chesterfield

A wise man turns chance into good fortune.

~ Thomas Fuller

Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.

~ David Starr Jordan