“Early to bed, early to rise, makes a man healthy, wealthy, and wise.”
— Benjamin Franklin Primary source“Wisdom is the daughter of experience.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary source“How little we know of what there is to know. I wish that I were going to live a long time instead of going to die today because I have learned much about life in these four days; more, I think, than in all the other time. I’d like to be an old man and to really know. I wonder if you keep on learning or if there is only a certain amount each man can understand. I thought I knew about so many things that I know nothing of. I wish there was more time.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“No, that is the great fallacy; the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“He who has put forth his total strength in fit actions has the richest return of wisdom.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern boxes; and though they know us, and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson Primary source“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
— William Blake Primary sourceExperience Time Age Learning Knowledge