See Also: EDUCATION, KNOWLEDGE

1. Chewing over their combined worldly wisdom like so many puppies with a shoe —Mary Ladd Cavell

   The wisdom in CavelPs story, The Rotifer, is being shared by three apartment mates.

2. The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water —Cameroonian proverb
3. The heart of the wise, like a mirror, should reflect all objects, without being sullied —Confucius
4. If a man is as wise as a serpent, he can afford to be as harmless as a dove —Josh Billings

   This is an elaboration of “Harmless as a dove” which dates back to the Bible. In Billings’ phonetic dialect this reads, “Iz az wize az a serpent.”

5. Insight as keen as frosty star —William Wordsworth
6. A learned man is a tank; a wise man is a spring —William R. Alger
7. String of wise jests … like gold links —Penelope Gilliatt
8. To learn a person’s life … like learning a language, you must start with the little things, the little pictures —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
9. Wisdom and virtue are like two wheels of a cart —Japanese proverb See Also: VIRTUE
10. Wisdom in a poor man is like a diamond set in lead —H. G. Bohn’s Handbook of Proverbs
11. Wisdom is like fire: a little enlightens, much burns —Moses Ibn Ezra
12. Wisdom is like gold ore, mixed with stones and dust —Moses Ibn Ezra
13. Wisdom, like life itself, appeared to me to be comprised of continuing progress, of starting over again, of patience —Marguerite Yourcenar
14. Wisdom, like perfume, rises out of its own essence —Norman Mailer
15. Wisdom shook itself like a drop off a dog (and he lost it) —Cynthia Ozick
16. Wise as a wisp —George Garrett
17. Wise as heaven —Algernon Charles Swinburne