To the graduates," the Ambassador continued, "I would point out that wisdom consists in recognizing what is truly important.

Among our people, we maintain that wisdom consists in recognizing the extent to which one is prone to error.

The mystics of muscle do not bother to assert any claim to extrasensory perception: they merely declare that your senses are not valid, and that their wisdom consists of perceiving your blindness by some manner of unspecified means.

Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life, and I quoted Burke, whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying, to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate.

It was also said to mean Bapho Metis, the Baptism of Wisdom, with no explanation given of what this wisdom consisted.

A young man whose received wisdom consists of the scraps others have thrown away.

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for the few right things and not caring a straw about the rest.

Indignation is a submission of our thoughts, but not of our desires; the Stoic freedom in which wisdom consists is found in the submission of our desires, but not of our thoughts.

An Arab proverb tells us that wisdom consists of ten parts - nine parts of silence, and one part with few words.

Munger's worldly wisdom consists of a set of mental models framed as a latticework to help solve critical business problems.