great quotes on wisdom

"Wisdom is learning what to overlook."

-Will James

"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living and the other helps you make a life."

-Sandra Carey

"If Noah had been truly wise / He would have swatted those two flies."

-H. Castle

"The wise man looks for what is within, the fool for what is outside."

-Confucius

"One thing every woman knows but few men ever learn is that there are times when the only wise action is not to act but to wait."

-Robert A. Heinlein

"Wisdom comes only through suffering."

-Aeschylus

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."
-Lord Alfred Tennyson

"It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things."

-Henry David Thoreau

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."

-Bertrand Russell