“ The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so full of doubts. ”
- Bertrand Russell- Copy
“ Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. ”
- Edmund Burke- Copy
“ As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish. ”
- Francois De La Rochefoucauld- Copy
“ One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything. ”
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg- Copy
“ The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. ”
- H. L. Mencken- Copy
“ Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. ”
- James Boswell- Copy
“ Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable. ”
- John Patrick- Copy
“ That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
“ 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. ”
- Mahatma Gandhi- Copy
“ We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us. ”
- Marcel Proust- Copy
“ To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe. ”
- Marilyn Vos Savant- Copy
“ Inner wisdom is more important than wealth. The more you spend it, the more you gain. ”
- Oprah Winfrey- Copy
“ Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish. ”
- Quintilian- Copy
“ Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it. ”
- Robbie Gass- Copy
“ Ask counsel of both times-of the ancient time what is best, and of the latter time what is fittest. ”
- Sir Francis Bacon- Copy
“ Wisdom is not finally tested in the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof. ”
- Walt Whitman- Copy
“ Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure. ”
- William Saroyan- Copy
“ The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
“ Don’t gain the world and lose your soul; wisdom is better than silver or gold. ”
- Bob Marley- Copy
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