Wisdom Quotes

“Experience is the father, and memory the mother of wisdom.”

“Wisdom begins at the end: remember it.”

“Wisdom is not what you know but how quickly you adjust when the opposite proves true.”

“To be the least wise in order to become the most wise — this is precisely what those Buddhists are aiming at without knowing it.”

“A good part of a reputation for wisdom is being lost for words when the situation calls for it.”

“It is a question not of hope or despair, but of truth; not of optimism nor of Pessimism, but of wisdom. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.”

“One does not grow wiser by knowing more but by becoming less certain.”

“Some wise men would do well to exchange a portion of their weighty wisdom for the lighter burden of their neighbors' innocent folly.”

“The years teach much which the days never know.”

“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.”

“Never does Nature say one thing and Wisdom another.”

“A single conversation with a wise man during the eating of a meal, is better than ten years' mere study of books.”