Wisdom Quotes & Sayings
These wisdom quotes and wisdom sayings are from our famous and inspiring collection.We learn wisdom from failure much more than from success. We often discover what will do, by finding out what will not do; and probably he who never made a mistake never made a discovery. - Samuel Smiles
Knowing how to cry is the wisdom of simplicity. - Miguel De Unamuno Y Jugo
'Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity. - Cato the Elder
Art will remain the most astonishing activity of mankind born out of struggle between wisdom and madness, between dream and reality in our mind. - Magdalena Abakanowicz
Mystery is the wisdom of blockheads. - Horace Walpole
Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance. - Henry Louis Mencken
Misfortunes leave wounds which bleed drop by drop even in sleep; thus little by little they train man by force and dispose him to wisdom in spite of himself. Man must learn to think of himself as a limited and dependent being; and only suffering teaches. - Simone Weil
The wisdom of our ancestors. - Sir Francis Bacon