“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
Wisdom is not the same as intelligence — it is intelligence filtered through experience, humility, and time. These quotes offer the kind of perspective you usually have to live several decades to acquire, compressed into a sentence or two.
“People always blame the girl she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.”
“Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.”
“Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.”
“Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.”
“I do not believe in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.”
“Follow your instincts. That's where true wisdom manifests itself.”
“A fool flatters himself, a wise man flatters the fool.”
“The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.”
“I actually don't think that I'm that much smarter than anybody else. It's just that I frequently just seem to know what to do, and I think that's wisdom.”
“I don't turn to greeting cards for wisdom and advice, but they are a fine reflection of the general drift of the culture.”
“Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.”
“No man was ever wise by chance.”
“The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events.”
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
“The truest wisdom is a resolute determination.”
“Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.”