Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom. It is the result of long and patient effort in self-control. Its presence is an indication of ripened experience, and of a more than ordinary knowledge of the laws and operations of thought.
James Allen
When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection it, will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.
Ali bin Abu-Talib
Opposition of one\'s desires is the sign of the highest level of wisdom in a human being.
al-Baqir, Muhammad
Moderation is the inseparable companion of wisdom, but with it genius has not even a nodding acquaintance.
Charles Caleb Colton
The end result of wisdom is... good deeds.
The Talmud
Knowledge without justice ought to be called cunning rather than wisdom.
Plato
There is something even more valuable to civilization than wisdom, and that is character
Henry Louis Mencken
Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Francis Kennedy
The Almighty in His infinite wisdom did not see fit to create Frenchmen in the image of Englishmen.
Winston Churchill
Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; pain we obey.
Marcel Proust
Animals, in their generation, are wiser than the sons of men; but their wisdom is confined to a few particulars, and lies in a very narrow compass.
Joseph Addison
Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana
Raising children is an incredibly hard and risky business in which no cumulative wisdom is gained: each generation repeats the mistakes the previous one made.
Bill Cosby
The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake