Quotes about wisdom

Wisdom is knowing when you can’t be wise.

Muhammad Ali

Ignorant men raise questions that wise men answered a thousand years ago.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Character is a quality that embodies many important traits, such as integrity, courage, perseverance, confidence and wisdom. Unlike your fingerprints that you are born with and can’t change, character is something that you create within yourself and must take responsibility for changing.

Jim Rohn

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

Carl Sagan

The wise way to benefit humanity is to attend to your own affairs, and thus give other people an opportunity to look after theirs.

Elbert Hubbard

Assuming, as you grow older, that you’re the guardian of the world’s wisdom, even if you haven’t necessarily lived enough to know what’s right and wrong.

Paulo Coelho

Worldly wisdom dictates to her disciples the propriety of dressing somewhat beyond their means, but of living somewhat within them.

Charles Caleb Colton

A fool’s wild speech confounds the wise.

Walter Scott

A wise woman wishes to be no one’s enemy; a wise woman refuses to be anyone’s victim.

Maya Angelou

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Albert Einstein