We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
~ Adlai E. Stevenson
It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
~ Walter Lippmann
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 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.
Sandra Carey
Be wiser than other people if you can, but do not tell them so.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it.
~ David Starr Jordan
