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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After all, to the well-organised mind, death is but the next great adventure.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Quoted: Dumbledore
Age brings experience, and a good mind wisdom.
Agree to disagree
George WhitefieldAlso: Agreeing to disagree
Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
Thomas JeffersonAll intellectual improvement arises from leisure.
Samuel JohnsonAll truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheAn idle brain is the devil's workshop.
When you work you avoid temptation to do bad things.An intelligent enemy is better than a stupid friend.
An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.
Victor HugoAn ounce of luck is better than a pound of wisdom.
To succeed, you often just need a bit of luck.An ounce of patience is worth a pound of brains.
And the worms ate into his brain.
Roger WatersSource: Pink Floyd lyrics: Hey You
Angry people are not always wise.
Jane AustenSource: Pride and Prejudice
Any fool can get into a fight, but a wise man knows how to stay out of them.
Ken FollettSource: The Pillars of the Earth
Any problem can be solved.
Aristotle taught that the brain exists merely to cool the blood and is not involved in the process of thinking. This is true only of certain persons.
Will CuppyArtificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity
(unknown author)As dead flies give perfume a bad smell, so a little folly outweighs wisdom and honor.
BibleSource: Ecclesiastes 10:1
As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
François de La RochefoucauldBe happy. It's one way of being wise.
Sidonie-Gabrielle ColetteBeauty is the wisdom of women. Wisdom is the beauty of men.
Beauty passes, wisdom remains
Beetle brain.
Not too cleverBeneath all old sayings lies the truth.
Better a drop of wisdom than an ocean of gold.
Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.
Lewis Blaine HersheyBoasting begins where wisdom stops.
Brain is worth more than brawn.
By others faults the wise correct their own.
Cabbage: A vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose BierceChildren and fools tell the truth.
Cleverness is not wisdom.
EuripidesContinual cheerfulness is a sign of wisdom.
Crazy, Over the rainbow, I am crazy
Pink FloydSource: The Trial (The Wall)
Deal with the faults of others as gently as your own.
Deep doubts, deep wisdom; small doubts, little wisdom.
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
H.L. MenckenDepend upon it there comes a time when for every addition in knowledge you forget something that you knew before.
Sir Arthur Conan DoyleSource: A Study in Scarlet
Quoted: Sherlock Holmes
Did you ever stop to think and forget to start again?
Winnie the PoohDo not pity the dead, Harry. Pity the living, and above all, those who live without love.
J.K. RowlingSource: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Quoted: Dumbledore
Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.
Mick JaggerEarly to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
Even if I know nothing, I will still say something.
Annet Bijlmakers-VaessenEvery problem can be solved.
Everyone thinks he has more than his share of brain.
Everything I know I learned after I was thirty.
Georges ClemenceauExperience is the father of wisdom.
Through experience you will gain better judgement.Experience is the teacher of jesters and the intelligence of the wise.
Experience purchased by suffering teaches wisdom.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
George Bernard Shaw