"It is seldom wise to approach an individual, who still smarts from our injustice to him, and announce that we have gone religious." – Big Book
"For the wise have always known that no one can make much of his life until self-searching has become a regular habit, until he is able to admit and accept what he finds, and until he patiently and persistently tries to correct what is wrong." –12&12 
"The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, and knowledge of the Holy One is understanding." – Proverbs 9:10
"Memory is the mother of all wisdom." – Aescylus 
"Wisdom is the daughter of experience." – Leonardo da Vinci 
"God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference." – Reinhold Niebuhr, Serenity Prayer 
"True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us." – Socrates
"To be even-minded is the greatest virtue. Wisdom is to speak the truth and act in keeping with its nature." – Heraclitus 
"Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom." – Aristotle 
"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest." – Confucius 
"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day." – Lao Tzu 
"Patience is the companion of wisdom."– St. Augustine 
"Prudence is right reason in action."– Thomas Aquinas
"Wisely and slow, they stumble who run fast." – William Shakespeare
"To profit from good advice requires more wisdom than to give it." – John Churton Collins 
"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go, my own wisdom and that of all about me insufficient for that day." – Abraham Lincoln 
"The art of being wise is knowing what to overlook." – William James 
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." – H. L. Mencken 
"Not to know at large of things remote from use, obscure and subtle, but to know that which before us lies in daily life, is the prime wisdom." – John Milton
"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." – Mahatma Gandhi 
"Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life." – Eleanor Roosevelt 
"We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us, for our wisdom is the point of view from which we come at last to regard the world." – Marcel Proust
"There’s a bit of ancient wisdom that appeals to us: it’s a saying that a fight starts only with the second blow." – Hugh Allen
"Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling." – Carl Jung
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." – Ralph Waldo Emerson 
"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us that the less we use our power the greater it will be." – Thomas Jefferson 
"A wise man will desire no more than what he may get justly, use soberly, distribute cheerfully, and leave contentedly." – Benjamin Franklin 
"Love is the foolishness of men, and the wisdom of God." – Victor Hugo 
"Wisdom is oft-times nearer when we stoop than when we soar." – William Wordsworth 
"The perfection of wisdom and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities; we will then be a happy and a virtuous people." – Mark Twain 
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience." – James Boswell 
"Life is the only real counselor; wisdom unfiltered through personal experience does not become a part of the moral tissue." – Edith Wharton "The wise person questions himself, the fool others." – Henry Arnold
"All men make mistakes, but only wise men learn from theirs." – Winston Churchill 
"Wisdom has two parts. In the first place, the wise man knows the means to certain good ends; secondly, he knows how much particular ends are worth." 
"For the wise men of old the cardinal problem had been how to conform the soul to reality and the solution was knowledge, self-discipline, and virtue. [Today] the problem is how to subdue reality to the wishes of men, [and] the solution is a technique." – C. S. Lewis 
"Sometimes it’s not enough to know what things mean; sometimes you have to know what things don't mean." – Bob Dylan
"If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race." – Huston Smith 
"Wisdom is an understanding of what is important, where this understanding informs a (wise) person’s thought or action." – Robert Nozick 
"Wisdom is a path; it’s a long, patient quest—over and over and over again doing simple things, day in and day out, right left, right left over a long period of time—and wisdom therefore can never happen quickly." – Tim Keller 
"Prudence is the virtue that disposes us to see rightly, the way things are in the world around us, and to employ that truthful vision to act rightly. It enables us to size up a situation accurately, to determine the best course of action, and to embark upon it. It is practical wisdom, or 'right reason' in action." – William C. Mattison III 
"Wisdom is not gained [just] by knowing what is right. Wisdom is gained by practicing what is right, and noticing what happens when that practice succeeds and when it fails." – Barbara Brown Taylor "Prudence helps us do the right thing, for the right reason, at the right time and the right place.” – Jeremy M. Christiansen 
"The difference between knowledge and wisdom is experience." – Michael Ruscio 
"Prudence is the virtue that disposes practical reason to discern our true good in every circumstance and to choose the right means of achieving it." – Catechism of the Catholic Church
"A smart person knows what to say. A wise person knows whether or not to say it." – Anonymous 
"Wisdom involves more than just knowledge. What characterizes this virtue is the ability to make distinctions between things, to perceive or apprehend differences, to discern the true from the false, right from wrong, and to take practical action based on an accurate grasp of reality and of the consequences of such action." – PTP123 
"Practical wisdom disposes us to see rightly, the way things really are in the world, and to act out of that truthful vision in the interest of the good." – PTP4 
For more PTP123 passages on wisdom, see pp. 195–201. For PTP4 passages, see among other pages: as prudence, 102, 196, 264, 378, 379; and right concern/construal, 118, 144; as right reason in action, 225, 267, 272, 296–297; chief and guide of the virtues, 118, 288, 378; in Serenity Prayer, 379; relation to knowledge and understanding, 294–295, 379; sub-virtues of, 264. For more Big Book and 12&12 passages, click on 164andmore.com and search wisdom and its cognates. For related posts, see in Reflections, Second Thoughts: Decisions, Reason, and Emotions, and How Important Is It?
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