Alfred, Lord Tennyson on wisdom

‘Tis better to have loved and lost / Than never to have loved at all.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.

Little flower — but if I could understand
What you are, root and all, and all in all,
I should know what God and man is.

The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.

Socrates470–399 BC

By three methods we may learn wisdom: First, by reflection, which is noblest; Second, by imitation, which is easiest; and third by experience, which is the bitterest.

Confucius551–479 BC

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we
understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.