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Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

If you were to offer a thirsty man all wisdom, you would not please him more than if you gave him a drink.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

The seven wise men of Greece, so famous for their wisdom all the world over, acquired all that fame, each of them, by a single sentence consisting of two or three words.

If they can prove that I am wrong by that time, I will give it up to their wisdom, but not after to any one's judgment, till I see the end of another year; for the Lord will begin with a new century; and I will see what he will do, before I will hearken to any man's judgment.

There was endless action - not just football, but sailboats, tennis and other things: movement. There was endless talk - the ambassador at the head of the table laying out the prevailing wisdom, but everyone else weighing in with their opinions and taking part.

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.

The key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.

The greatest wisdom is to realize one's lack of it.

You want people walking away from the conversation with some kernel of wisdom or some kind of impact.

Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.

Lessons of wisdom have the most power over us when they capture the heart through the groundwork of a story, which engages the passions.

Sciences may be learned by rote, but wisdom not.

I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.

Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Economists often like startling theorems, results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.