"By three methods we may learn wisdom: first, by reflection, which is noblest; second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third, by experience, which is the most bitter." - Confucius
"Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens." - Jimi Hendrix
"Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life." - Immanuel Kant
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" - T. S. Eliot
"The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom." - H. L. Mencken
"The well bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves." - Oscar Wilde
"We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future." - George Bernard Shaw
"The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom." - Isaac Asimov
"The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." - Lin Yutang
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." - William James
"Wisdom is to the mind what health is to the body." - François de la Rochefoucauld
"Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification." - Martin Fischer
"The highest form of wisdom is to get drunk and go to pieces." - Rudyard Kipling
"A word to the wise is infuriating." - Hunter S. Thompson
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