The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are…

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages, may be preserved through quotations

— Benjamin Disraeli

“The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotations.”

— Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation.

— Isaac D'Israeli

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages is preserved into perpetuity by a nation's proverbs, fables, folk sayings and quotations.

— William Feather

Though we may be learned by another's knowledge, we can never be wise but by our own experience.

— Michel de Montaigne

A prudent person profits from personal experience, a wise one from the experience of others.

— Joseph Collins

The art of quotation requires more delicacy in the practice than those conceived who could see nothing more in a quotation than an extract

— Benjamin Disraeli

“You want the light shine on you or you want to be the light itself? You want to get wisdom from a wise man…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“The wise never confuse information or data, however prodigious or cleverly deployed, with comprehensive knowledge or wisdom...Be wise.”

— Ziad K. Abdelnour

Wisdom is not communicable. The wisdom which a wise man tries to communicate always sounds foolish.

— Hermann Hesse

“One who is full of knowledge may still be empty. When seasoned with selflessness, self-control and sound judgment, knowledge transforms into wisdom. The wise…

— Philip Stover

“... wisdom cannot be passed on. Wisdom which a wise man tries to pass on to someone always sounds like foolishness.”

— Hermann Hesse

“Wisdom is wisdom only to the wise”

— James H. Cousins

He who seeks wisdom is a wise man; he who thinks he has found it is mad.

— Seneca the Younger

Nine-tenths of wisdom is being wise in time.

— Theodore Roosevelt