Wisdom Quotes

"Experience is what you get when you didn't get what you wanted." "By all means let’s be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out." "It is human nature to think wisely and act in an absurd fashion" "If a million people say a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing" "Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it." "The more you know, the sadder you get." "When experts are wrong, it's often because they're experts on an earlier version of the world" "Everything in moderation including moderation" "We can know only one thing: that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom." "A truly wise man is always joyful." "Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance" "Silence is a lesson learned through life's many sufferings" "To philosophize is to learn to die" "The love we have in our youth is superficial compared to the love that an old man has for his old wife" "Science gives us knowledge but only philosophy can give us wisdom" "In my youth, I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order" "We teach more by what we are than by what we teach" "Genius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way." "The more you know, the more you see." "It always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place"