Wisdom Quotes

I think I got a lot of life skills; I got a lot of wisdom; I’ve seen a lot of bad things happen to a lot of good people.

Circumspection and caution are part of wisdom.

For all my education, accomplishments, and so called ‘wisdom’… I can’t fathom my own heart.

The world is a severe schoolmaster, for its frowns are less dangerous than its smiles and flatteries, and it is a difficult task to keep in the path of wisdom.

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!

We all have holes, chips and scratches on us but these wear marks represent our journey, our wisdom, our knowledge, our lessons learned, our strength, and our vitality.

Once you hit 40, you start reexamining the math of it all. I’ll trade wisdom for youth any day.

We seem to gain wisdom more readily through our failures than through our successes.

We have to go through certain things in order to appreciate life and learn lessons.

Even the hard times are part of your life story. If you acknowledge them and move past them, they eventually add up to the experience that makes you wise.