Wisdom Quotes

You have but the wisdom of your temperament, and the wisdom of my temperament is just as unimpeachable as yours.

It is much more difficult to judge oneself than to judge others. If you succeed in judging yourself rightly, then you are indeed a man of true wisdom.

"To start things off, what do you think of the world?"
"I don't know anything."
"The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen."

For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

— I'm not smarter than you, I'm more knowledgeable than you, and that's only because I'm older than you. Parents are always more knowledgeable than their children, and children are always smarter than their parents.

What you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while.

There are grains of truth in the wildest fable.