"Doth not wisdom cry? and understanding put forth her voice? She standeth in the top of high places, by the way in the places of the paths. She crieth at the gates, at the entry of the city, at the coming in at the doors. Unto you, O men, I call; and my voice is to the sons of man. O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart. Hear; for I will speak of excellent things; and the opening of my lips shall be right things. For my mouth shall speak truth; and wickedness is an abomination to my lips. All the words of my mouth are in righteousness; there is nothing froward or perverse in them. They are all plain to him that understandeth, and right to them that find knowledge. Receive my instruction, and not silver; and knowledge rather than choice gold. For wisdom is better than rubies; and all the things that may be desired are not to be compared to it. I wisdom dwell with prudence, and find out knowledge of witty inventions. The fear of the Lord is to hate evil: pride, and arrogancy, and the evil way, and the froward mouth, do I hate. Counsel is mine, and sound wisdom: I am understanding; I have strength."

"I lead in the way of righteousness, in the midst of the paths of judgment: That I may cause those that love me to inherit substance; and I will fill their treasures. The Lord possessed me in the beginning of his way, before his works of old. I was set up from everlasting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was. When there were no depths, I was brought forth; when there were no fountains abounding with water. Before the mountains were settled, before the hills was I brought forth: While as yet he had not made the earth, nor the fields, nor the highest part of the dust of the world. When he prepared the heavens, I was there: when he set a compass upon the face of the depth: When he established the clouds above: when he strengthened the fountains of the deep: When he gave to the sea his decree, that the waters should not pass his commandment: when he appointed the foundations of the earth: Then I was by him, as one brought up with him: and I was daily his delight, rejoicing always before him; Rejoicing in the habitable part of his earth; and my delights were with the sons of men. Now therefore hearken unto me, O ye children: for blessed are they that keep my ways. Hear instruction, and be wise, and refuse it not. Blessed is the man that heareth me, watching daily at my gates, waiting at the posts of my doors. For whoso findeth me findeth life, and shall obtain favour of the LORD. But he that sinneth against me wrongeth his own soul: all they that hate me love death."

"He gives wisdom to whom He wills, and whoever has been given wisdom has certainly been given much good. And none will remember except those of understanding."

"Afin que ne semblons es Atheniens, qui ne consultoient jamais sinon après le cas faict."

"Il est bon de frotter et limer notre cervelle centre celle d'autrui."

"Seven wise men on an old black settle, Seven wise men of the Mermaid Inn, Ringing blades of the one right metal, What is the best that a blade can win?"

"Be wise; Soar not too high to fall; but stoop to rise."

"Victrix fortunæ sapientia."

"Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves."

"Some men never spake a wise word, yet doe wisely; some on the other side doe never a wise deed, and yet speake wisely."

"Wouldst thou wisely, and with pleasure, Pass the days of life's short measure, From the slow one counsel take, But a tool of him ne'er make; Ne'er as friend the swift one know, Nor the constant one as foe."

"And he is oft the wisest man Who is not wise at all."

"Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked."

"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

"Wisdom shall die with you."

"But they whom truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed."

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

"A wise man is out of the reach of fortune."

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

"Who are a little wise the best fools be."

"Teach me my days to number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom."

"But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects, Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers, Seizes the right, and holds it to the last."

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart."

"Some people are more nice than wise."

"The words of the wise are as goads."

"Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret."

"Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise."

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

"For never, never, wicked man was wise."

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

"Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri."

"Sapere aude."

"Great men are not always wise."

"Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the event."

"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres, que pour soi-même."

"Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit."

"Wisdom is justified of her children."

"A little too wise they say do ne'er live long."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

"Le sage vit tant qu'il doibt, non pas tent qu'il peut."

"When swelling buds their od'rous foliage shed, And gently harden into fruit, the wise Spare not the little offsprings, if they grow Redundant."

"Feliciter sapit qui alieno periculo sapit."

"Nemo mortalium omnibus horis sapit."

"Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the street."

"Get wisdom, because it is better than gold: and purchase prudence, for it is more precious than silver."

"Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom."