“We don't receive wisdom; we must discover it for ourselves after a journey that no one can take for us or spare us.”
Marcel Proust
“Like water in the desert is wisdom to the soul.”
Edward Albert Counsel
“Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.”
Eleanor Roosevelt
“The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“You know the difference between knowledge and wisdom? Knowledge is knowing tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is knowing you don't put tomato in a fruit salad.”
Miles Kington
“Turn your wounds into wisdom.”
Oprah Winfrey
“Knowledge comes from learning. Wisdom comes from living.”
Anthony Douglas Williams
“We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.”
George Bernard Shaw
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“It is said that wisdom lies not in seeing things, but seeing through things.”