More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads.One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.

-Allen,Woody pseudonym of  Allen Stewart Konigsberg
  Side Effects,'My Speech to the Graduates'.

Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? An older woman knows. But how much older do you have to get before you acquire that kind of wisdom?

-Atwood, Margaret Eleanor
  The Robber Bride, ch.48.

It is the wisdom of the crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour.

-Bacon, Francis,Viscount St Albans
  Essays, no.23,'Of  Wisdom for a Man's Self'.

The belief that we somehow moved on to something elseöwhether still recognisably ourselves, or quite thoroughly changedömight be a tribute to our evolutionary tenacityand our animal thirst for life, but not to our wisdom.

-Banks, Iain Menzies
  On the idea of life after death. The Crow Road, ch.18.

  'Some people', Miss R. said,'run to conceits or wisdom but I hold to the hard, brown, nutlike word. I might point out that there is enough aesthetic excitement here to satisfy anyone but a damned fool.'

-Barthelme, Donald
  Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural  Acts,'The Indian Uprising'.

We thought we were done with these things but we were wrong. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

-Bene¤  t, StephenVincent
  'A Litany for Dictatorships'.

No doubt but ye are the people, and wisdom shall die with you.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job12:2.

With the ancient is wisdom; and in length of days understanding.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Job12:12.

Behold, thoudesiresttruth intheinward parts: and inthe hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean: wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 51:6^7.

So teach us to number our days that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms 90:12.

The fear of the L is the beginning of wisdom.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms111:10.

   Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs1:20.

  Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom: and with all thy getting get understanding.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 4:7.

Happy is the man that findeth wisdom, and the man that gettethunderstanding.For themerchandise of it isbetter than the merchandise of silver, and the gain thereof than fine gold. She is more precious than rubies: and all the thingsthoucanst desirearenottobe compared untoher. Length of days is in her right hand; and in her left hand riches and honour. Her ways are ways of pleasantness, and all her paths are peace. She is a tree of life to them that lay hold upon her: and happy is every one that retaineth her.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 3:13^18.

Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven pillars.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 9:1.

For inmuchwisdomismuchgrief: and hethat increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes1:18.

Whatsoever thy hand findethto do; do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes 9:10.

Dead flies causethe ointment of theapothecary tosend forth a stinking savour: so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes10:1.

The wisdom of a learned man cometh by opportunity of leisure: and he that hath little business shall become wise. How can he get wisdom that holdeth the plough, and that glorieth in the goad, that driveth oxen, and is occupied in their labours, and whose talk is of bullocks?

-Bible (Apocrypha)
Ecclesiasticus 38:24^5.

But wisdom is justified of her children.

-Bible (NewTestament)
St Matthew11:19.