No man was ever wise by chance.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Patience is the companion of wisdom.
Saint Augustine

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.
Tobias Smollett

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
William James

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
Benjamin Franklin

The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it.
Jean Paul

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.
H. L. Mencken

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Socrates

The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.
Napoleon Bonaparte

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.
Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise is an uncommon degree of common sense.
Dean Inge

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens

To be satisfied with a little, is the greatest wisdom; and he that increaseth his riches, increaseth his cares; but a contented mind is a hidden treasure, and trouble findeth it not.
Akhenaton

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Turn your wounds into wisdom.
Oprah Winfrey

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw

When I can look life in the eyes, grown calm and very coldly wise, life will have given me the truth, and taken in exchange - my youth.
Sara Teasdale

Wisdom begins at the end.
Daniel Webster

Wisdom begins in wonder.
Socrates