Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
- Albert Einstein

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin H. Fischer

It is a thousand times better to have common sense without education than to have education without common sense.
- Robert Green Ingersoll

Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you make a life.
- Sandara Carey

My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren't so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.
- Michael Gerber

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and just listen. No more is needed. Being still, looking, and listening activates the non-conceptual intelligence within you. Let stillness direct your words and actions.
- Eckhart Tolle

One's first step in wisdom is to question everything - and one's last is to come to terms with everything.
- Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
- Immanuel Kant

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant

Those who wish to appear wise among fools, among the wise seem foolish.
- Quintilian

Wisdom consists of the anticipation of consequences.
- Norman Cousins

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson

Knowledge can be communicated but not wisdom.
- Hermann Hesse

The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
- William Shakespeare

The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
- William James