Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

Who is the wisest man? He who neither knows or wishes for anything else than what happens.

He swallowed a lot of wisdom, but all of it seems to have gone down the wrong way.

Mixing one's wines may be a mistake, but old and new wisdom mix admirably.

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

A single conversation across the table with a wise man is worth a month's study of books.

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err.