“Knowledge which is divorced from justice may be called cunning rather than wisdom.”

“Seek the wisdom of ten people rather than the knowledge of one.”

Masaaki Imai (1930) Japanese business theorist and consultant

“Each of these private teachers who work for pay … inculcates nothing else than these opinions of the multitude which they opine when they are assembled and calls this knowledge wisdom.”

Socrates (-470–-399 BC) classical Greek Athenian philosopher

“Ideas, as the raw material from which knowledge is produced, exist in superabundance, but that makes the production of knowledge more difficult rather than easier.”

Thomas Sowell (1930) American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author

“Knowledge may come from study, but wisdom come from learning and improving in the wake of your mistakes.”

John C. Maxwell (1947) American author, speaker and pastor

“Cunning... is but the low mimic of wisdom.”

Plato (-427–-347 BC) Classical Greek philosopher

“Cunning is only the mimic of discretion, and may pass upon weak men in the same manner as vivacity is often mistaken for wit, and gravity for wisdom.”

Joseph Addison (1672–1719) politician, writer and playwright

“In actions of enthusiasm, this drawback appears: but in those lower activities, which have no higher aim than to make us more comfortable and more cowardly, in actions of cunning, actions that steal and lie, actions that divorce the speculative from the practical faculty, and put a ban on reason and sentiment, there is nothing else but drawback and negation.”

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882) American philosopher, essayist, and poet

“It may almost be a question whether such wisdom as many of us have in our mature years has not come from the dying out of the power of temptation, rather than as the results of thought and resolution.”

Anthony Trollope book The Small House at Allington

“An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.”

Evan Esar (1899–1995) American writer