1. A man doesn't begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable. ~Admiral Richard E. Byrd
2. A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds. ~Francis Bacon
3. Age doesn't always bring wisdom. Sometimes age comes alone. ~Unknown
4. Believe those who are seeking the truth; doubt those who find it. ~Andre Gide
5. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. ~Lin Yutang
6. By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest. ~Confucius
7. Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ~John Lubbock
8. Even a fool, when he holdeth his peace, is counted wise: and he that shutteth his lips is esteemed a man of understanding. ~Proverbs 17:28
9. Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure. We get very little wisdom from success, you know. ~William Saroyan
10. He that thinks himself the wisest is generally the least so. ~C.C. Colton
11. He who asks a question may be a fool for five minutes. But he who never asks a question remains a fool forever. ~Tom J. Connelly
12. I am not young enough to know everything. ~Oscar Wilde
13. I'd rather know some of the questions than all of the answers. ~James Thurber
14. If facts are the seeds that later produce knowledge and wisdom, then the emotions and the impressions of the senses are the fertile soil in which the seeds must grow. ~Robert Green
15. It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense. ~Ingersoll
16. It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things. ~Henry David Thoreau
17. It is the province of knowledge to speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. ~Oliver Wendell Holmes
18. Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom. ~Theodore Rubin
19. Knowledge becomes wisdom only after it has been put to practical use. ~Unknown
20. Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. ~Martin Fischer
21. Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts, but the results, even if they agree with previous ones, must be the work of our mind. ~Benjamin Disraeli
22. Learn wisdom from the ways of a seedling. A seedling which is never hardened off through stressful situations will never become a strong productive plant. ~Stephen Sigmund
23. Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late. ~Benjamin Franklin
24. Logic is the beginning of wisdom; not the end. ~Spock ~Star Trek
25. One's first step in wisdom is to question everything and one's last is to come to terms with everything. We judge of man's wisdom by his hope. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance. ~Confucius
27. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. ~Immanuel Kant
28. The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth. ~Pierre Abelard
29. The biggest difficulty with mankind today is that our knowledge has increased so much faster than our wisdom. ~Frank Whitmore
30. The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise man grows it under his feet. ~James Oppenheim
31. The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common. ~Ralph Waldo Emerson
32. These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future. ~Vernon Cooper
33. To know when to be generous and when firm—that is wisdom. ~Elbert Hubbard
34. Unless it grows out of yourself no knowledge is really yours, it is only borrowed plumage. ~D. T. Suzuki
35. We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom. ~Michel de Montaigne
36. We should not be swayed by our theories to give up common sense too easily. ~Karl Popper
37. We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom. ~Stephen Vincent Benét
38. When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. ~Unknown ~attributed to Mark Twain
39. Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it. ~David Starr Jordan
40. Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being. ~Orison S. Marden
41. Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the life-long attempt to acquire it. ~Albert Einstein
42. Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk. ~Doug Larson
43. You will know the clever by their answers; but the wise you will know by their questions. ~Naguib Mahfouz, Nobel prize winner