wisdom (n.)
- adage
- advantage
- advantageousness
- advisability
- ana
- analects
- aphorism
- apothegm
- apprehension
- appropriateness
- axiom
- broad-mindedness
- byword
- catchword
- clairvoyance
- command
- comprehension
- conception
- conceptualization
- convenience
- decency
- depth
- desirability
- dictate
- dictum
- distich
- epigram
- erudition
- expedience
- expediency
- expression
- feasibility
- fitness
- fittingness
- foreknowledge
- fruitfulness
- gnome
- grasp
- grip
- gumption
- ideation
- information
- insight
- intellection
- intelligence
- judgment
- judiciousness
- know-it-all
- lore
- mastery
- maxim
- moral
- mot
- motto
- opportuneness
- oracle
- percentage
- perspicacity
- phrase
- precept
- precognition
- prehension
- prescript
- profit
- profitability
- profoundness
- profundity
- propriety
- proverb
- proverbs
- prudence
- rightness
- sagaciousness
- sagacity
- saneness
- sapience
- savvy
- saw
- saying
- science
- seasonableness
- seemliness
- sentence
- shrewdness
- smart
- suitability
- sutra
- teaching
- text
- timeliness
- understanding
- usefulness
- verse
- wiseacre
- wiseness
- wisenheimer
- witticism
- word
- worthwhileness
A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock's,—"One man's wit, and all men's wisdom."—Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
The picture placed the busts between
Adds to the thought much strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,
But Folly's at full length.
So teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.
Thus with the year
Seasons return; but not to me returns
Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn,
Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose,
Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine;
But cloud instead, and ever-during dark
Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men
Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair
Presented with a universal blank
Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd,
And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic. A man's own observation, what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of, is the best physic to preserve health.
Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street.
Earth sounds my wisdom and high heaven my fame.
In idle wishes fools supinely stay;
Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another's mishap.
Because right is right, to follow right
Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.
Wisdom is better than rubies.
Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much;
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
Books are not seldom talismans and spells.
Wisdom is justified of her children.
In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!
Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
The law is the last result of human wisdom acting upon human experience for the benefit of the public.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
The man of wisdom is the man of years.
Wisdom married to immortal verse.
This dead of midnight is the noon of thought,
And Wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.
Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop
Than when we soar.
Urge him with truth to frame his fair replies;
And sure he will: for Wisdom never lies.
Not by years but by disposition is wisdom acquired.
Wisdom of many and the wit of one.
The wisdom of our ancestors.
By this story [The Fox and the Raven] it is shown how much ingenuity avails, and how wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
It is a point of wisdom to be silent when occasion requires, and better than to speak, though never so well.
The price of wisdom is above rubies.
It seems the part of wisdom.
Wisdom shall die with you.
A short saying oft contains much wisdom.
The spirit of the Lord shall rest upon him, the spirit of wisdom and understanding, the spirit of counsel and might, the spirit of knowledge and of the fear of the Lord.
All government,—indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,—is founded on compromise and barter.
To know
That which before us lies in daily life
Is the prime wisdom.
Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding.
Vain wisdom all and false philosophy.
And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps
At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity
Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill
Where no ill seems.
He that lacks time to mourn, lacks time to mend.
Eternity mourns that. 'T is an ill cure
For life's worst ills, to have no time to feel them.
Where sorrow's held intrusive and turned out,
There wisdom will not enter, nor true power,
Nor aught that dignifies humanity.
Exhausting thought,
And hiving wisdom with each studious year.
Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth:
If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt.
Wit and wisdom are born with a man.
