百分之九十的灵感是汗水浇灌出来的。
Ninety percent of inspiration is perspiration.
悲痛使人明智。
Sorrow makes us wise.
笔墨是才智之犁。
Pen and ink is wit’s plough.
不出家门的青年，只有平庸的智慧。
Home-keeping youths have ever homely wits.
不理智的事就有危险。
What is not wisdom is danger.
不听老人言，吃亏在眼前。
An old man’s sayings are seldom untrue.
If the old dog barks, he gives counsel.
If you wish good advice, consult an old man.
才智越少，越不想要。
The less wit a man has, the less he knows that he wants it.
财富不如才智。
Better sense in the head than cents in the pocket.
Better wit than wealth.
草率和智慧永远相悖。
Hast and wisdom are things far off.
沉默是智慧的标志。
Silence is the sign of wisdom.
沉默是最聪明的。
No wisdom like silence.
沉默为智，多言为愚。
Silence is wisdom when speaking is folly.
吃得最多不一定最胖，读书最多不一定最聪明。
Those who eat most are not always fattest; those who read most, not always wisest.
吃一堑，长一智。
A fall into the pit, a gain in your wit.
After crosses and losses, men grow humbler and wiser.
By falling, we learn to go safely.
Every failure one meets with adds to one’s experience.
Experience does it.
Man knows nothing but what he ha learned from experience.
No practice, no gain in one’s wit.
聪明反被聪明误。
A wise man may fall into a pit of his own digging.
Genius often betrays itself into great errors.
聪明人循理智办事，普通人照经验办事，蠢人按需要办事，畜牲凭本能办事。
The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds, by experience; the stupid, by necessity; and brutes, by instinct.
聪明一世，糊涂一时。
Clever all one’s life, but stupid this once.
Every man has a fool in his sleeve.
No one wise at all times.
从他人的愚蠢行为中学习智慧。
Learn wisdom by the follies of others.
Man learns to be wise by the folly of others.
挫折有助于智慧的成长。
Disappointment is the nurse of wisdom.
大智若愚。
A man of great wisdom often seems slow-witted.
Full vessels sound least.
Greatest genius often lies concealed
It is wisdom sometimes to seem a fool.
No man can play the fool as well as the wise man.
Water runs smoothest where it is deepest.
对智者一言足以。
Few words to the wise suffice.
To a wise man one word is enough.
多思考出智慧。
Much thinking yields wisdom.
多听长智慧，多说要后悔。
From hearing comes wisdom; from speaking repentance.
多要的人愚蠢，多给的人更蠢。
The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it.
寡语为智。
A still tongue makes a wise head.
过去的错误就是将来的智慧与成功。
The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.
好马也有失蹄时。
The best horse stumbles.
话多者不一定有智慧。
The greatest talkers are not always the wisest men.
急中生智。
Necessity is a hard dart / weapon.
简单的就是最好的。
Dry light is the best.
简洁是智慧的灵魂。
Brevity is the soul of wit.
骄傲毁灭智慧。
Pride is the ruin of wit.
经历一次获得的智慧，胜过两次别人的教导。
Wit once bought is worth twice taught.
经历中获得的智慧，胜过学到的智慧。
Wit bought is better than wit taught.
经一事，长一智。
By doing we learn.
From a thing you did, you have a gain in your wit.
酒令智昏。
When wine enters, wisdom departs.
When wine is in, wit is out.
When the wine goes in, the wit goes out.
Wine in, wit out.
可以一直愚弄一些人，也可以有时愚弄所有人，但不可能一直愚弄所有人。
You can fool some of the people all the time, and all of the people some of the time; but you can’t fool all of the people all the time.
口若悬河。
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
口若悬河并不能证明真有才智。
A flow of words is no proof of wisdom.
懒惰能磨去才智的锋芒。
Sloth turns the edge of wit.
老话总是有道理。
All old sayings have something in them.
老谋是不会失算的。老鸟不使用谷壳能够捉住的。
Old birds are not to be caught with chaff.
老年人不易上当。
No playing with a straw before an old cat.
旅行使智者更聪明，使愚者更愚蠢。
Travel makes a wise man better, but a fool worse.
没有智慧，财富就没有价值。
Without wisdom weatlth is worthless.
脑子越用越灵活。
The more the well is used, the more water it gives.
The oft used key is always bright.
能把自己的事务妥善处理的人就是聪明人。
He is wise that has wit enough for his own affairs.
能驾驭感情的人是智者。
He is a wise man that leads passion by the bridle（马笼头）.
逆境不能使人富有，但能使人聪明，。
Adversity makes a man wise, not rich.
逆境使人聪明。
The wind in one’s face makes one wise.
宁作聪明的愚者，不作愚蠢的智者。
Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.
农民是文明的奠基人。
Farmers are the founders of civilization.
怒气郁积愚者胸中。
Anger rests in the bosom of folly.
偶尔会装傻的人才是智者。
He is not a wise man who cannot play the fool on occasion.
派聪明人出差无需多嘱咐。
Send a wise man on an errand, and say nothing to him.
亲身体验得到的智慧代价昂贵。
Bought wit is dear.
亲身体验最可贵，但代价可能太大。
Bought wit is best, but may cost too much.
热情应归智者有，然而傻瓜最热情。
Zeal is only for wise men, but is found mostly in fools.
人人都有糊涂时，却无人糊涂一世。
None is a fool always, every one sometimes.
如果事事都能做两回，人人皆称有智慧。
If things were to be done twice all would be wise.
如果无知是福分，聪明就是愚蠢。
Where ignorance is bliss, ‘tis folly to be wise.
三个臭皮匠，顶个诸葛亮。集思广益。
Four eyes see more than two.
Many / Two heads are better than one.
So many heads, so many wits.
As many heads, as many wits.
Two eyes can see more than one.
Two heads are better than one.
三十六计，走为上计。
Go where / while the going is good.
善于从他人挫折中获得智慧的人最聪明。
He is truly wise who gains wisdom from another’s mishap（小事故）.
少时的知识，就是老时的智慧。
Knowledge in youth is wisdom in age.
少说多做是大智者的特点。
To say little and perform much is the characteristic of great minds.
深谋远虑。
Purpose supposes foresight.
时间和经历使人智慧。
Time and experience make men wise.
实践是智慧之母。
Experience is the mother of wisdom.
世上所有的智慧不是在一个人的头脑中产生的。
All the wit in the world is not in one head.
书乃积累智慧永不熄灭的明灯。
Books are the ever-burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
岁月教给人智慧。
Multitude of years should teach wisdom.
贪杯丧智。
When ale / drink / wine is in wit is out.
同智者一起思考，与俗人一起交谈。
Think with the wise, but talk with the vulgar.
头发长，见识短。
Long hair, short wit.
More hair than wit.
唯真理中才有智慧。
Wisdom is only found in truth.
伟大的诗如同喷泉，永远喷出智慧和快乐的水花。
A great poem is a fountain forever overflowing with the waters of wisdom and delight.
想得好是聪明，计划得好更聪明，做得好最聪明。
Thinking well is wise; planning well, wiser; doing well, wisest and best of all.
想象是创作之源。
Imagination is the source of creation.
想象有时比现实生动得多。
Imagination is sometimes more vivid than reality.
许多人聆听忠言，只有智者从中获益。
Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.
一分智慧抵得上十分教诲。