Chinua Achebe Quotes

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

With time and experience comes a different perception of what's going on around you.

Wisdom comes by disillusionment.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Youth sees too far to see how near it is To seeing farther.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

You get more insight as you get older, on everything.

It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.

What an elder sees sitting; the young can't see standing.

The older you get, of course, the knowingness of the truth - the ownership of knowing - is louder.

Two eyes see more than one.

Nobody is born wise.

Men's wisdom increases with reference to what lies before them.

We shall see but a little way if we require to understand what we see.

With age comes wisdom.

Wisdom is a gift but has nothing to do with age. That was probably the case with me.

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

What separates old from the young is experience and patience.

You cannot be wise without some basis of knowledge, but you may easily acquire knowledge and remain bare of wisdom.