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

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

One of the greatest pieces of economic wisdom is to know what you do not know.
John Kenneth Galbraith

The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.
John Kenneth Galbraith

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.
Jimmy Carter

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

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.
George MacDonald

Without courage, wisdom bears no fruit.
Baltasar Gracian

He who is taught to live upon little owes more to his father's wisdom than he who has a great deal left him does to his father's care.
William Penn

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

The motto of chivalry is also the motto of wisdom; to serve all, but love only one.
Honore de Balzac

Wisdom is that apprehension of heavenly things to which the spirit rises through love.
Honore de Balzac

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

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

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.
Saadi

In youth and beauty, wisdom is but rare!
Homer

Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.
Zhuangzi

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.
Phil Jackson

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

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster