📚 Wisdom

Books with wisdom on their catalogue record, first published between 1601 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject wisdom in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 3,145 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Agudeza y arte de ingenio, en que se explican todos los modos y differencias de conceptos, con ejemplares escogidos de todo lo más bien dicho, assi facto, como hymano	Baltasar Gracián y Morales	1649	89
	Wisdom	Edward Wilkinson	1787	76
	Loyalty and Disloyalty	Dag Heward-Mills	2004	51
	De la sagesse	Pierre Charron	1601	36
	Le dictionnaire des idées reçues	Gustave Flaubert	1913	34
	Wisdom and destiny	Maurice Maeterlinck	1898	31
	Fröhliche Wissenschaft	Friedrich Nietzsche	1960	23
	Who Will Cry When You Die?	Robin S. Sharma	1999	17
	La sagesse et la destinée	Maurice Maeterlinck	1898	13
	Le gai savoir	Friedrich Nietzsche	1950	12
	Creating Affluence	Deepak Chopra	1993	12
	Wisdom of the ages	Wayne W. Dyer	1975	11
	A Father's Book of Wisdom	H. Jackson Brown, Jr.	1988	9
	The seven principles of man	Annie Wood Besant	1890	8
	The ageless wisdom of life	Clara M. Codd	1962	8
	The Dalai Lama's Book of Wisdom	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1998	8
	Tools of Titans	Timothy Ferriss	2016	8
	Beowulf	Seamus Heaney	2000	7
	Becoming wise	Krista Tippett	2016	7
	The World's Wisdom	Philip Novak	1994	6
	Myth and religion	Alan Watts	1996	6
	Ancient Wisdom, Modern World	His Holiness Tenzin Gyatso the XIV Dalai Lama	1999	6
	Joyful wisdom	Rinpoche Yongey Mingyur	2009	6
	How the Bible Actually Works	Peter Enns	2019	6
	Seventy-eight degrees of wisdom	Rachel Pollack	1986	5
	The Three Battlegrounds	Francis Frangipane	1989	5
	Heart thoughts	Louise L. Hay	1990	5
	Letters to my son	Kent Nerburn	1993	5
	A Quaker book of wisdom	Robert Lawrence Smith	1998	5
	Wisdom of the Ages	Wayne W. Dyer	1999	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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