Quotes About Wisdom

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. 

One helps you make a living;

 the other helps you make a life. 

-Sandra Carey

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
-Benjamin Franklin

Knowing others is wisdom,

knowing yourself is enlightenment.

-Lao Tzu

A prudent question 

is one-half of wisdom.

-Francis Bacon

It is a fine thing even for

an old man to learn wisdom.

-Aeschylus

One may learn wisdom 

even from one's enemy.

-Aristophanes 

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

-Sophocles

All human wisdom is contained 

in these two words, Wait and Hope.

-Alexandre Dumas

It is a characteristic of wisdom

not to do desperate things.

-Henry David Thoreau

Wisdom begins 

in wonder.

-Socrates

After wisdom comes wit.

-Evan Esar

Nine-tenths of wisdom

is being wise in time.

-Theodore Roosevelt

True wisdom comes to each of us

when we realize how little

we understand about life, ourselves 

and the world around us

-Socrates

Knowledge speaks,

but wisdom listens.

-Jimi Hendrix