Wisdom.—Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house some time before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.—Bacon.
Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.—Coleridge.
Human wisdom makes as ill use of her talent when she exercises it in rescinding from the number and sweetness of those pleasures that are naturally our due, as she employs it favorably, and well, in artificially disguising and tricking out the ills of life to alleviate the sense of them.—Montaigne.
It may be said, almost without qualification, that true wisdom consists in the ready and accurate perception of analogies. Without the former quality, knowledge of the past is uninstructive; without the latter, it is deceptive.—Whately.
You read of but one wise man, and all that he knew was—that he knew nothing.—Congreve.
To be wiser than other men is to be honester than they; and strength of mind is only courage to see and speak the truth.—Hazlitt.
Knowledge comes but wisdom lingers.—Tennyson.
Seize wisdom ere 'tis torment to be wise; that is, seize wisdom ere she seizes thee.—Young.
Wisdom married to immortal verse.—Wordsworth.
No man can be wise on an empty stomach.—George Eliot.