Quotes on Wise Wisdom

Common sense in an uncommon degree is what the world calls wisdom.

The first step in the acquisition of wisdom is silence, the second listening, the third memory, the fourth practice, the fifth teaching others.

We can be knowledgeable with other men's knowledge, but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.

When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.

No man was ever wise by chance.

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

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

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

To live the greatest number of good hours is wisdom.

We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

To finish the moment, to find the journey's end in every step of the road, to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.