„Great wisdom is generous; petty wisdom is contentious.“

— Zhuangzi

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„Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.“
— Charles Spurgeon
„No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.“
— Ernest Hemingway
„Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish… Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.“
— Hermann Hesse
„Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own.“
— Heraclitus
„Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.“
— Terry Pratchett