Famous Wisdom Quotes in English with Images

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

- Wisdom Quotes by H. L. Mencken Download or Share

Wisdom is what’s left after we’ve run out of personal opinions.

- Wisdom Quotes by Cullen Hightower Download or Share

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

- Wisdom Quotes by Bertrand Russell Download or Share

The wisest mind has something yet to learn.

- Wisdom Quotes by George Santayana Download or Share

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.

- Marilyn vos Savant Quotes Download or Share

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

- Menander Quote

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.

- Quintilian Quotes

Like an ability or a muscle, hearing your inner wisdom is strengthened by doing it.

- Robbie Gass Quotes

Wisdom outweighs any wealth.

- Sophocles Quotes

No man is wise enough by himself.

Not age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.

Good people are good because they’ve come to wisdom through failure.

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.

- William Shakespeare Quotes

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.

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

Wisdom doesn’t automatically come with old age. Nothing does – except wrinkles. It’s true, some wines improve with age.  But only if the grapes were good in the first place.

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.

One’s first step in wisdom is to question everything – and one’s last is to come to terms with everything.

- Wisdom Quotes by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

Force without wisdom falls of its own weight.

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