Art Quote by Thomas Browne

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages.

— Henry Ward Beecher

Wisdom is the gray hair unto men, and an unspotted life is old age (Solomon 4:8).

— Bible

The thing about wisdom is you store the past in your head.

— Herm Edwards

These days people seek knowledge, not wisdom. Knowledge is of the past, wisdom is of the future.

— Vernon Cooper

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

— H. L. Mencken

Now times had changed, and the inherited wisdom of the past had become folly.

— Arthur C. Clarke

The older I grew the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

— H L Mencken

“The only things that old age comes standard with: grey hair and wrinkles. Wisdom and intellect are earned.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the…

— Henry Ward Beecher

“Even the wisdom of the wisest depends on the accumulated wisdom of the past!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

I am not one who was born in the custody of wisdom; I am one who is fond of olden times and intense in…

— Gustave Courbet

It is because the old have forgotten life that they preach wisdom.

— Philip Moeller