“The growth of wisdom may be gauged exactly by the diminution of ill temper.”
“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.”
“Though wisdom cannot be gotten for gold, still less can be gotten without it.”
“One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.”
“True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.”
“Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life.”
“Committing a great truth to memory is admirable; committing it to life is wisdom.”
“The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.”
“He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.”
“A life of frustration is inevitable for any coach whose main enjoyment is winning.”
“Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd preferred to talk.”
“It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
“By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.”
“If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.”
“A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.”
“Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.”
“In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it, thou art a fool.”
“A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.”
“Wisdom too often never comes, and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.”
“No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.”
“Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?”
“Look at those they call unfortunate and at a closer view, you'll find many of them are unwise.”
“Truth from his lips prevailed with double sway, and fools, who came to scoff, remained to pray.”
“Wisdom we know is the knowledge of good and evil -- not the strength to choose between the two.”
“Great men are the commissioned guides of mankind, who rule their fellows because they are wiser.”
“We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.”