Balance Quote by George Santayana

Proverbs may be said to be the abridgment of wisdom.

— Joseph Joubert

Proverbs are potted wisdom.

— Charles Buxton

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

— George Santayana

“Sometimes wisdom is simply the ability to recognize the truth, and to speak you heart, in spite of everything you fear to be true.”

— Erica Verrillo

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

— Sophocles

“Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise”

— James H. Cousins

A proverb is the wisdom of many and the wit of one.

— Anonymous

“Wisdom has no substitute and those who are wise don't argue against it.”

— AarEss

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all thy getting get understanding. -Proverbs iv. 7

— Bible

A proverb is one man's wit and all men's wisdom.

— Bertrand Russell

Wisdom finds its literary expression in wisdom literature.

— Paul Ricoeur

Proverbs contradict each other. That is the wisdom of a nation.

— Stanislaw Jerzy Lec