Quotes About Wisdom and Life

Wisdom is meaningless until your own experience has defined it.

Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.

The greater part of human wisdom consists of being prudent and reserved.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

All wisdom can be stated in two lines: what is given to you, accept. What is given, give.

Wisdom is found only in truth.

Don't gain the world and lose your soul, wisdom is better than silver or gold.

Wisdom is to the soul what health is to the body.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

Wisdom is knowing the right path to take. Integrity is taking it.

A common mistake people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.

Every man is a damn fool for at least five minutes every day. Wisdom consists in not exceeding the limit.

Where there is no patience there is no wisdom.

The function of wisdom is to discriminate between good and evil.

It is the part of a wise man to keep himself today for tomorrow.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

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

Time ripens all things. No man is born wise.

Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.

Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.

He who learns but does not think is lost. He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.

Sometimes a quote may be wiser than the man who said it.

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Wise people think all they say; fools say all they think.

Wisdom is knowing what to overlook.

Life is short. Wisdom is long.