Quotes About Wisdom

Learning from your mistakes does not happen automatically, it requires thinking and reflection.

Listen with a heart, but answer with a soul.

To think is God's gift to man. What to think is in your hands.

Well-timed silence has more eloquence than speech.

You can buy education, but wisdom is a gift that can never be bought.

You can learn a lot from your mistakes when you aren't busy denying them.

If you become a teacher, by your pupils you'll be taught.

To really enjoy the better things in life, one must have first experienced the things they are better than.

She has the answer to everything and the solution to nothing.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

A clear understanding of how much I don't know about medicine is one of my greatest strengths

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself.

Experience is the name we give to our past mistakes

To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's life. It is no less than a denial of the soul

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

I do not approve of anything which tampers with natural ignorance.

Vulgarity is the conduct of other people, just as falsehoods are the truths of other people

An ordinary man away from home giving advice.

The secret of life is to appreciate the pleasure of being terribly deceived.

The only thing to do with good advice is to pass it on. It is never of any use to oneself.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing worth knowing can be taught.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

I love to talk about nothing. It's the only thing I know anything about.

I always pass on good advice. It's the only thing to do with it. It is never any use to oneself.