Quotes on Wisdom
By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.
-- Eleanor Marx
Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.
-- Theodore Roosevelt (1858-1919), US president, in speech 14 June 1917
Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools,
Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having to another not having it,
Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.
-- Walt Whitman (1819-92), American poet, in: Song of the Open Road