Rudyard Kipling on wisdom

I keep six honest serving-men (They taught me all I knew); Their names are What and Why and When And How and Where and Who.

Every woman knows all about everything.

He wrapped himself in quotations⁠—as a beggar would enfold himself in the purple of Emperors.

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.