A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
The wise learn many things from their enemies.
He whose wisdom cannot help him, gets no good from being wise.
If men possessed wisdom, which stands in the same relation to the form of man as the sight to the eye, they would not cause any injury to themselves or to others; for the knowledge of truth removes hatred and quarrels, and prevents mutual injuries.
Man's wisdom is his best friend; folly his worst enemy.
We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery.
No man is the wiser for his learning; it may administer matter to work in, or objects to work upon; but wit and wisdom are born with a man.
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.