Ruby Bridges Quotes

Wisdom doesn't necessarily come with age. Sometimes age just shows up all by itself.

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Wisdom is not attained by years, but by ability.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Wisdom begins at the end.

Both old and young alike ought to seek wisdom: the former in order that, as age comes over him, he may be young in good things because of the grace of what has been, and the latter in order that, while he is young, he may at the same time be old, because he has no fear of the things which are to come.

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.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

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

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

As you age, you have this vast cauldron of experience to draw from. Some of the experiences are great; some of them you wish you'd never had. But all of them shape the work that you do and the person you become. It's just inevitable.

It takes a wise man to recognize a wise man.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

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

I've become a lot wiser over the years.

We are wiser than we know.

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

The wise needn't ask, the fool asks in vain.

Knowing many things doesn't teach insight.

What a man knows at fifty that he did not know at twenty is, for the most part, incommunicable.