Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people, to discourage them from ambitious attempts, and generally console them in their mediocrity.
Robert Louis Stevenson

He who learns must suffer. And even in our sleep pain that cannot forget falls drop by drop upon the heart, and in our own despair, against our will, comes wisdom to us by the awful grace of God.
Aeschylus

Wisdom comes alone through suffering.
Aeschylus

Memory is the mother of all wisdom.
Aeschylus

It is good even for old men to learn wisdom.
Aeschylus

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

There is no knowledge, no light, no wisdom that you are in possession of, but what you have received it from some source.
Brigham Young

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
Marilyn vos Savant

Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen.
Carl Sandburg

It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom.
Dee Hock

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government.
Thomas Carlyle

I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.
Thomas Carlyle

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

I prefer the folly of enthusiasm to the indifference of wisdom.
Anatole France

Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
E. O. Wilson

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

It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.
Thomas Hobbes

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.
King Solomon