We are Home sapiens. It is the scientific name of our species and means “wise man”. Some of this wisdom is reflected in this collection of proverbs and quotes.
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We have no words for speaking of wisdom to the stupid. He who understands the wise is wise already.
Georg Christoph LichtenbergWe never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public.
Bryan WhiteWe only have to look at ourselves to see how intelligent life might develop into something we wouldn't want to meet
Stephen HawkingWe start as fools and become wise through experience.
Wealth gets in the way of wisdom.
What I look forward to is continued immaturity followed by death.
Dave BarryWhat is life but a series of moments?
(unknown author)What wisdom can you find that is greater than kindness?
Jean-Jacques RousseauWhen life hands you lemons, make lemonade.
Where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Thomas GrayWhere there are no brains, there is no feeling.
Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
Eckhart TolleWisdom consists of ten parts; nine parts of silence and one part with few words.
Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom WilsonWisdom is a form of stupidity.
MinkukelWisdom is better than strength.
Wisdom is born; stupidity is learned.
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
ConfuciusWise men are not always silent, but they know when to be.
(unknown author)Wise men create proverbs and fools repeat them.
Samuel PalmerWise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.
PlatoWise people are foolish if they cannot adapt to foolish people.
Michel de MontaigneWise people can’t answer the most foolish questions.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Steven WeinbergWithout rice, even the cleverest housewife cannot cook.
Words are like the spider's web: a shelter for the clever ones and a trap for the not-so-clever.
You are ushered in according to your dress; shown out according to your brains.
You can borrow brains, but you can't borrow character.
You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift from God.
(unknown author)You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.
Naguib MahfouzYou can't be old and wise, if you were never young and crazy.
Chris BrownYou could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't exist!
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Quoted: Hermione
Youth has its romance, and maturity its wisdom, as morning and spring have their freshness, noon and summer their power, night and winter their repose.
Elizabeth GaskellSource: The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2