Intimacies between women often go backwards beginning in revelations and ending in small talk.

Words of wisdom are spoken by children at least as often as scientists.

But I do think it's important to remember that writers do not have a monopoly of wisdom on their books. They can be wrong about their own books they can often learn about their own books.

Wisdom too often never comes and so one ought not to reject it merely because it comes late.

I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often cynicism is confused with wisdom and my scorn is confused with a knowing which I don't have.

Economists often like startling theorems results which seem to run counter to conventional wisdom.

That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.

True wisdom is less presuming than folly. The wise man doubteth often and changeth his mind the fool is obstinate and doubteth not he knoweth all things but his own ignorance.

Wisdom is oftentimes nearer when we stoop than when we soar.

Much wisdom often goes with fewest words.