“True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.”
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“The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.”
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goal.”
“Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.”
“They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.”
“Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.”
“Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.”
“Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.”
“The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.”
“Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.”
“This is the highest wisdom that I own: freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.”
“Wisdom alone is the science of other sciences.”
“Wisdom comes alone through suffering.”
“Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.”
“The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.”
“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.”
“Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.”
“Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.”
“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.”
“It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.”
“True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.”
“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”
“Whatever you do in life, surround yourself with smart people who'll argue with you.”