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.
Trouble brings experience, and experience brings wisdom.
Health is the condition of wisdom, and the sign is cheerfulness, – an open and noble temper.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
A wise man should have money in his head, but not in his heart.
Wise men speak because they have something to say; fools because they have to say something.
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 most bitter.
It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness . . . it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair . . . in short, the period was so far like the present period . . .