"Truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind."

-- Ella Wheeler Wilcox

"I was wise enough to never grow up while fooling most people into believing I had."

-- Margaret Mead

"... wisdom alone can suffice when knowledge and faith aren't enough."

-- T.V. Smith

"I am convinced, both by faith and experience, that to maintain one's self on the earth is not a hardship but a pastime -- if we live simply and wisely."

-- Thoreau

"Nothing is  waste of time if you use the experience wisely."

-- Rodin

"I am sure of this, that by going much alone a man will get more of a noble courage in thought and word than from all the wisdom in books."

-- Emerson

"There is only one wisdom: to recognize the intelligence that steers all things."

-- Heraclitus

"The days that make us happy make us wise."

-- John Mansfield

"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials."

-- Lin Yutang

"Stopping the mind does not bring wisdom, what brings wisdom is understanding the nature of the mind..."

-- Stephen Levine

"Meditation is creating the space where you can sit down and listen to your own wisdom."

-- Louise Hay

"Knowledge cuts up the world; wisdom makes it whole."

-- David Maybury-Lewis

"To repent nothing is the beginning of wisdom."

-- Ludwig Borne

"He dares to be a fool and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."

-- James Gibbons Huneker

"A loving heart is the truest wisdom."

-- Charles Dickens

"Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom."

-- Thomas Jefferson

"That is the true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when the occasion demands it."

-- Terence

"Wise living consists less in acquiring good habits than in acquiring as few habits as possible."

-- Eric Hoffer

"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials."

-- Lin Yutang

"Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions."

-- Cullen Hightower