Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson.

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

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.

We can be Knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men’s wisdom.
Michel de Montaigne.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
St. Augustine.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you’d have preferred to talk.
Doug Larson

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
David Star Jordan

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

Wisdom doesn’t necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.
Tom Wilson

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Bill Veeck

The years teach much which the days never knew.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When I can look Life in the eyes,
Grown calm and very coldly wise,
Life will have given me the Truth,
And taken in exchange – my youth.
Sara Teasdale

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Isaac Asimov

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Juvenal, Satires

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

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

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

A child can ask questions that a wise man cannot answer.
Author Unknown

A single conversation with a wise man is better than ten years of study.
Chinese Proverb

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins

He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.
James Gibbons Huneker

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.
George Santayana

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.
Doug Larson

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

Wisdom is ofttimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.
William Wordsworth

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.
Sophocles

If wisdom and diamonds grew on the same tree we could soon tell how much men loved wisdom.
Lemuel K. Washburn

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
William Shakespeare

One must spend time in gathering knowledge to give it out richly.
Edward C. Steadman

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.
François Duc de La Rochefoucauld

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.
Josh Billings

Wisdom is never on the menu, you have to own the restaurant.
Carrie Latet

The child, offered the mother’s breast,
Will not in the beginning grab it;
But soon it clings to it with zest.
And thus at wisdom’s copious breasts
You’ll drink each day with greater zest.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Every wise man lives in an observatory.
Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
Martin H. Fischer

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.
Herb Caen

There is a wisdom of the head, and… a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

Common-sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

No man was ever wise by chance.
Seneca

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. George Bernard Shaw