Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson - Keyword(s): Age

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov - Keyword(s): Life , Science , Society

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles - Keyword(s): , Wealth

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.
Merry Browne - Keyword(s): Prejudice

Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Augustus William Hare - Keyword(s):

The wise man in the storm prays God, not for safety from danger, but for deliverance from fear.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s): Fear

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson - Keyword(s): Listening

A single gnomic line can come to resonate with centuries of subsequent wisdom.
Gary Saul Morson - Keyword(s): Quotations

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare - Keyword(s):

The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Keyword(s): Age

Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
Buddha - Keyword(s): Self

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana - Keyword(s):

The road to wisdom? -Well, it's plain and simple to express: Err and err and err again but less and less and less.
Piet Hein - Keyword(s): Experience

Another possible source of guidance for teenagers is television, but television's message has always been that the need for truth, wisdom and world peace pales by comparison with the need for a toothpaste that offers whiter teeth and fresher breath.
Dave Barry - Keyword(s): Television , Truth , World

We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again - and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore.
Mark Twain - Keyword(s): Experience

In phrases as brief as a breath worldly wisdom concentrates.
Willis Goth Regier - Keyword(s): Quotations

I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Abraham Lincoln - Keyword(s): Learning

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine - Keyword(s): Patience

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
Calvin Coolidge - Keyword(s): Ability , Knowledge , Mind

Proverbs are potted wisdom.
Charles Buxton - Keyword(s): Proverbs

Time, the cradle of hope.... Wisdom walks before it, opportunity with it, and repentance behind it: he that has made it his friend will have little to fear from his enemies, but he that has made it his enemy will have little to hope from his friends.
Charles Caleb Colton - Keyword(s): Hope , Opportunity , Time

The world has achieved brilliance without wisdom, power without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living.
Omar Bradley - Keyword(s): Peace , Power , War

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
Jean de La Bruyere - Keyword(s): , Reason

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson - Keyword(s): Knowledge

We can be Knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne - Keyword(s): Knowledge

One man's wit, and all men's wisdom.
John Russell - Keyword(s):

To speak and to speak well are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.
Ben Jonson - Keyword(s): Speaking

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Keyword(s):

No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca - Keyword(s):

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.
Bertolt Brecht - Keyword(s): , Mistakes

The prince who would know all, must ignore much.
Domitius Afer - Keyword(s):

Fear is the main source of superstition, and one of the main sources of cruelty. To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s): Fear , Superstition , Cruelty

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day; wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.
Elbert Hubbard - Keyword(s):

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth - Keyword(s):

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings - Keyword(s):

Silence is a fence around wisdom.
German Proverb - Keyword(s): Silence

There is deep wisdom within our very flesh, if we can only come to our senses and feel it.
Elizabeth A. Behnke - Keyword(s): Self

There is a wisdom of the head, and... a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens - Keyword(s): Heart

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb - Keyword(s): Learning

The teacher who is indeed wise does not bid you to enter the house of his wisdom but rather leads you to the threshold of your mind.
Khalil Gibran - Keyword(s): Teachers

Nothing can be truer than fairy wisdom. It is as true as sunbeams.
Douglas Jerrold - Keyword(s): Fairies

Time is the wisest counsellor of all.
Pericles - Keyword(s): Time

Do not be wise in words - be wise in deeds.
Jewish Proverb - Keyword(s): Action

Our ability to create has outreached our ability to use wisely the products of our invention.
Whitney M. Young - Keyword(s): Invention , Ability

Tea is instant wisdom - just add water!
Astrid Alauda - Keyword(s): Tea

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen - Keyword(s): Dental , Experience

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Leonard Nimoy - Keyword(s): Logic

Just because your voice reaches halfway around the world doesn't mean you are wiser than when it reached only to the end of the bar.
Edward R. Murrow - Keyword(s): Television , World

It is wise to keep in mind that no success or failure is necessarily final.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Failure , Success

Knowledge is proud that he has learn'd so much; wisdom is humble that he knows no more.
William Cowper - Keyword(s): Knowledge

Wisdom before experience is only words; wisdom after experience is of no avail.
Mark van Doren - Keyword(s): Experience

Cabbage: a familiar kitchen-garden vegetable about as large and wise as a man's head.
Ambrose Bierce - Keyword(s): Humankind

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock - Keyword(s): Ability , Leadership , Trust

The fear of God is not the beginning of wisdom. The fear of God is the death of wisdom. Skepticism and doubt lead to study and investigation, and investigation is the beginning of wisdom.
Clarence Darrow - Keyword(s): Fear , God , Skepticism

I believe that all wisdom consists in caring immensely for a few right things, and not caring a straw about the rest.
John Buchan - Keyword(s):

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people full of doubts.
Bertrand Russell - Keyword(s): , Fanaticism , Folly , World

The best aphorisms are.... portable wisdom, the quintessential extracts of thought and feeling. They furnish the largest amount of intellectual stimulus and nutriment in the smallest compass.
William R. Alger - Keyword(s): , Feelings

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbons Huneker - Keyword(s):

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James - Keyword(s):

Women are wiser than men because they know less and understand more.
James Thurber - Keyword(s): , Men , Women

He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise.
Lao Tzu - Keyword(s): Self

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett - Keyword(s): Ignorance

Nothing is a waste of time if you use the experience wisely.
Auguste Rodin - Keyword(s): Experience , Time

Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin - Keyword(s): People

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
Lemuel K. Washburn - Keyword(s): Jewelry

Tea is liquid wisdom.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Tea

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster - Keyword(s):

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal - Keyword(s): Nature

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
Anonymous - Keyword(s): Children

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Bill Veeck - Keyword(s):

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer - Keyword(s): Knowledge

A wise man shall overrule his stars, and have a greater influence upon his own content than all the constellations and planets of the firmament.
Jeremy Taylor - Keyword(s): Astrology

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Keyword(s): Advice

Wisdom is like a baobab tree; no one individual can embrace it.
East African Proverb - Keyword(s):

He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty.
Mary Wilson Little - Keyword(s):

Experience makes more timid men than it does wise ones.
Josh Billings - Keyword(s): Experience

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw - Keyword(s): Responsibility

We all have spiritual DNA; wisdom and truth are part of our genetic structure even if we don't always access it.
Lama Surya Das - Keyword(s):

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan - Keyword(s): Virtue

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
Anonymous - Keyword(s):

When the wisdom speaks, be silent. Do not waste your candle when the sun is there.
Mehmet Murat Ildan - Keyword(s):

The difference between a smart man and a wise man is that a smart man knows what to say, a wise man knows whether or not to say it.
Frank M. Garafola - Keyword(s): Speaking

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has given it meaning... and there is wisdom in the selection of wisdom.
Bergen Evans - Keyword(s):

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Confucius - Keyword(s): Change , Happiness

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins - Keyword(s):

The wise man reads both books and life itself.
Lin Yutang - Keyword(s): Books , Life

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes - Keyword(s):

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson - Keyword(s):

We give advice, but we cannot give the wisdom to profit by it.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld - Keyword(s):

The wise man does at once what the fool does finally.
Niccolo Machiavelli - Keyword(s): , Men , Folly

There is power in Knowledge, but there is greater power in Wisdom.
Neil deGrasse Tyson - Keyword(s): Knowledge , Power

Knowledge is learning something every day. Wisdom is letting go of something every day.
Zen Proverb - Keyword(s): Knowledge

It is easier to find a score of men wise enough to discover the truth than to find one intrepid enough, in the face of opposition, to stand up for it.
A.A. Hodge - Keyword(s):

Take the risk of thinking for yourself. Much more happiness, truth, beauty and wisdom will come to you that way.
Christopher Hitchens - Keyword(s): Risk , Thinking , Truth