Patience is the companion of wisdom.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

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.

Experience is not what happens to you; it's what you do with what happens to you.

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

Seek the wisdom of the ages, but look at the world through the eyes of a child

“It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.”

Keep me away from the wisdom which does not cry, the philosophy which does not laugh and the greatness which does not bow before children.

A loving heart is the truest wisdom.

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​There is a wisdom of the Head, and ... there is a wisdom of the Heart.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.”

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.”

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.

The wise man hath his thoughts in his head; the fool, on his tongue.

An ignorant man is always able to say yes or no immediately to any proposition. To a wise man, comparatively few things can be propounded which do not require a response with qualifications, with discriminations, with proportion.