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

The wisest man is generally he who thinks himself the least so.
-Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux

We all get heavier as we get older because there's a lot of information in our heads.
-Vlade Divac, L. A. Lakers player

The doors of wisdom are never shut.
-Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge dwells in heads replete with the thoughts of other men; wisdom in minds attentive to their own.
-William Cowper

It requires wisdom to understand wisdom; the music is nothing if the audience is deaf.
-Walter Lippmann

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
-Alfred, Lord Tennyson

A person who doesn't know but knows that he doesn't know is a student; teach him. A person who knows but who doesn't know that he knows is asleep; awaken him. But a person who knows and knows that he knows is wise; follow him.
-Old Asian Proverb

Life is a festival only to the wise.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, and wiser people so full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell

Why are a wise man and a wise guy opposites?
-Anonymous

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.
-Unknown

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
-Sandra Carey

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the bitterest.
-Confucius

When an old person dies, a library burns down.
-African Proverb

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-Immanuel Kant