Herb Caen

"A prudent question is one-half of wisdom."

Francis Bacon

"All this worldly wisdom was once the unamiable heresy of some wise man."

Henry David Thoreau

"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."

Confucius

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

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Elbert Hubbard

"He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom."

James Gibbons Huneker

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."

Mary Wilson Little

"In seeking wisdom thou art wise; in imagining that thou hast attained it - thou art a fool."

Lord Chesterfield

"It is astonishing with how little wisdom mankind can be governed, when that little wisdom is its own."

William R. Inge

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."

Walter Lippmann

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

Alfred Lord Tennyson

"Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe."

Josh Billings

"Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another."

Juvenal

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."

Theodore Roosevelt

"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 wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations."

Benjamin Disraeli