African Proverb Quotes

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

I think with experience and age, you gain knowledge and wisdom.

Though I am fascinated by knowledge, I am even more fascinated by wisdom.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

A man can be wiser today than he was yesterday.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

Much learning does not teach understanding.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

The knowledge I have now is not the knowledge I had then.

There are a lot of lessons to be learned. We can all learn lessons.

You can practice to attain knowledge, but you can't practice to attain wisdom.

The value of experience is not in seeing much, but in seeing wisely.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

Learning sleeps and snores in libraries, but wisdom is everywhere, wide awake, on tiptoe.

Experience is one thing you can't get for nothing.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you is to always remain a child.

Some are smart but they are not wise

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to day.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

To acquire knowledge, one must study; but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.