Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age. But only if the grapes were good in the first place.
Abigail Van Buren – Wisdom
We cannot advance without new experiments in living, but no wise man tries every day what he has proved wrong the day before.
James Truslow Adams – Wisdom, Experiment
Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.
Horace
Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.
Samuel Butler on Wisdom
A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.
Mark Twain on Wisdom
He who exercises wisdom exercises the knowledge which is about God.
Epictetus on Wisdom
The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
Thomas Carlyle Wisdom
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one’s being.
Orison Swett Marden on Wisdom
It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
Henry David Thoreau on Wisdom
Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.
Thomas Carlyle on wisdom
There is a time when a man distinguishes the idea of felicity from the idea of wealth; it is the beginning of wisdom.
Ralph Waldo Emerson Wisdom
Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.
Confucius Wisdom
There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so; but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.
Francis Bacon – Happiness, Wisdom
The sum of wisdom is that time is never lost that is devoted to work.
Ralph Waldo Emerson – Wisdom
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information.
