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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Beauty 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 ShawFools are wise until they speak.
Randle CotgraveFools speak while the wise listen
For millions of years, mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened which unleashed the power of our imagination. We learned to talk and we learned to listen. Speech has allowed the communication of ideas, enabling human beings to work together to build the impossible. Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking, and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn't have to be like this. Our greatest hopes could become reality in the future. With the technology at our disposal, the possibilities are unbounded. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
Stephen HawkingFriendship is love with understanding.
From the pine tree, learn of the pine tree.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
From the bamboo, learn of the bamboo.
Genius may have its limitations, but stupidity is not thus handicapped.
Elbert HubbardGo to the ant thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.
BibleSource: Proverbs 6:6
God in His wisdom made the fly
And then forgot to tell us why.
Ogden NashAnd then forgot to tell us why.
Source: The Fly
Good to know that when I die everybody's IQ will go up.
MinkukelGray hair is a sign of age, not wisdom.
Great minds think alike.
You say this when you have the same opinion as another person.Half a brain is too much for him who says little.
Half the world is composed of idiots, the other half of people clever enough to take indecent advantage of them.
Walter KerrHe that breaks a thing to find out what it is has left the path of wisdom.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Lord of the Rings - The Fellowship of the Ring
Quoted: Gandalf
He was a wise man who invented beer.
PlatoHe was as noble and fair in face as an elf-lord, as strong as a warrior, as wise as a wizard, as venerable as a king of dwarves, and as kind as summer.
J.R.R. TolkienSource: The Hobbit - Chapter 3 - A Short Rest
About Elrond.
He who deals with a blockhead will need a lot of brains.
He who knows nothing, doubts nothing.
He who rises early will gather wisdom.
He's a nitwit.
He's a stupid person. A foolish person.