The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.
William Blake

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.
William Blake

The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.
William Blake

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
Robert Kennedy

Every nation whose affairs betray a want of wisdom and stability may calculate on every loss which can be sustained from the more systematic policy of its wiser neighbors.
James Madison

Where is the Life we have lost in living? Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?
T. S. Eliot

Silence at the proper season is wisdom, and better than any speech.
Plutarch

To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.
Plutarch

I will give you a definition of a proud man: he is a man who has neither vanity nor wisdom one filled with hatreds cannot be vain, neither can he be wise.
John Keats

It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

In life, all good things come hard, but wisdom is the hardest to come by.
Lucille Ball

Though sages may pour out their wisdom's treasure, there is no sterner moralist than pleasure.
Lord Byron

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.
Oprah Winfrey

Wisdom is found only in truth.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.
Charles Spurgeon

God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Reinhold Niebuhr