Wisdom Quotes

Wisdom is what's left after we've run out of personal opinions.

Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without.

Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain.

As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.

Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts.

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.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

No man is wise enough by himself.