Every generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
George Orwell
If you want people to think you are wise, agree with them.
Yiddish proverbs
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
Honesty is the best policy.
Benjamin Franklin
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
Albert Einstein
A man must be big enough to admit his mistakes, smart enough to profit from them, and strong enough to correct them.
John C. Maxwell
When you're trying to get something for nothing you often end up getting nothing for something.
Larry Elder
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Will Durant
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
Dr. Seuss
Early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise.
He who knows nothing is closer to the truth than he whose mind is filled with falsehoods and errors.
Thomas Jefferson
Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
Norman Cousins
He that would live in peace and at ease must not speak all he knows or all he sees.
The only source of knowledge is experience.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.
Charles Dickens
All truth is not to be told at all times.
Samuel Butler
I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.
Maya Angelou
The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.
Edmund Burke
The doors of wisdom are never shut.
