Plautus Quotes

I'm young but I'm not stupid.

Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired.

Knowledge shrinks as wisdom grows.

Nobody is born wise.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

A great memory is never made synonymous with wisdom, any more than a dictionary would be called a treatise.

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

It is not white hair that engenders wisdom.

I'm not a stupid man.

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.

Sir, as a man advances in life, he gets what is better than admiration, - judgement, to estimate things at their true value.

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.

Cleverness is not wisdom.

My definition of an educated man is the fellow who knows the right thing to do at the time it has to be done. You can be sincere and still be stupid.

Be as smart as you can, but remember that it is always better to be wise than to be smart.

Knowledge is marvelous, but wisdom is even better.

You don't get old being stupid.

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

In youth we learn; in age we understand.

By Time and Age full many things are taught.

To know that we know what we know, and to know that we do not know what we do not know, that is true knowledge.

The older you get, the better you get, because you've seen more. You don't necessarily have to go through a lot, but you have to witness it in order to recreate it.