Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We can be knowledgable with other men's knowledge but we cannot be wise with other men's wisdom.
Even youngish men can acquire wisdom as time goes by.
Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.
We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.
If the highest things are unknowable, then the highest capacity or virtue of man cannot be theoretical wisdom.
Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values.
Wise men make more opportunities than they find.
A man may learn wisdom even from a foe.
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.
Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future.