Wisdom

I recommend you to take care of the minutes, for the hours will take care of themselves.

Chesterfield

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

F.D. Roosevelt

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

Bertrand Russell

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

Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

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

James Boswell

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.

Mahatma Gandhi

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

Marcel Proust

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

Marilyn Vos Savant

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Titus Maccius Plautus

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Francis Bacon

A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.

Francis Bacon

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Maurice Switzer

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

William Shakespeare