Quotes about Wisdom

Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.

Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

Somebody who only reads newspapers and at best books of contemporary authors looks to me like an extremely near-sighted person who scorns eyeglasses. He is completely dependent on the prejudices and fashions of his times, since he never gets to see or hear anything else.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death.

The only source of knowledge is experience.

An empty stomach is not a good political adviser.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

I am not a genius, I am just curious. I ask many questions. and when the answer is simple, then God is answering.