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.

Patience is the companion of wisdom.

A prudent question is one-half of wisdom.

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

A man begins cutting his wisdom teeth the first time he bites off more than he can chew.

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

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

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.

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

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

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Wisdom stands at the turn in the road and calls upon us publicly, but we consider it false and despise its adherents.

The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions.

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

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

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

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

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.

Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk.

Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it.

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

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

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

You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions.

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

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

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.

No man was ever wise by chance.

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

Some folks are wise and some are otherwise.

Wisdom begins in wonder.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

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.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

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

Wisdom begins at the end.

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

Turn your wounds into wisdom.