Wisdom(42)

"Wisdom is the reward you get for a lifetime of listening when you'd have preferred to talk."
Doug Larson

"Wisdom is the quality that keeps you from getting into situations where you need it."
Doug Larson

"It requires wisdom to understand wisdom: the music is nothing if the audience is deaf."
Walter Lippmann

"He who devotes sixteen hours a day to hard study may become at sixty as wise as he thought himself at twenty."
Mary Wilson Little

"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
H. L. Mencken

"You can tell whether a man is clever by his answers. You can tell whether a man is wise by his questions."
Mahfouz Naguib

"Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?"
Friedrich Nietzsche

"The more sand that has escaped from the hourglass of our life, the clearer we should see through it."
Jean Paul

"Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time."
Theodore Roosevelt

"To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom."
Bertrand Russell