"The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God."

"Drop, drop—in our sleep, upon the heart sorrow falls, memory's pain, and to us, though against our very will, even in our own despite, comes wisdom by the awful grace of God."

"The price of wisdom is above rubies."

"Standing in this presence, mindful of the solemnity of this occasion, feeling the emotions which no one may know until he senses the great weight of responsibility for himself, I must utter my belief in the divine inspiration of the founding fathers."

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

"Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable."

"Victrix fortunæ sapientia."

"The most manifest sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness: her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene."

"How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!"

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

"Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri."

"Chiefs who no more in bloody fights engage, But, wise through time, and narrative with age, In summer-days like grasshoppers rejoice, A bloodless race, that send a feeble voice."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"For never, never, wicked man was wise."

"Sapere aude."

"No one could be so wise as Thurlow looked."

"Nequicquam sapere sapientem, qui ipse sibi prodesse non quiret."

"Some are weather-wise, some are otherwise."

"In much wisdom is much grief."

"Who are a little wise the best fools be."

"The words of the wise are as goads."

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

"Quis nam igitur liber? Sapiens qui sibi imperiosus."

"Le sage vit tant qu'il doibt, non pas tent qu'il peut."

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

"A wise man is out of the reach of fortune."

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

"Putting human affairs in exact formulas shows in itself a lack of the sense of humor and therefore a lack of wisdom."

"Teach me my days to number, and apply My trembling heart to wisdom."

"To speak as the common people do, to think as wise men do."

"He, too, is good who takes advice from a wiser (person)."

"But he who neither thinks for himself, nor lays to heart another's wisdom, this is a useless man.’"

"For many of my years — perhaps twelve — had passed away since my nineteenth, when, upon the reading of Cicero's Hortensius, I was roused to a desire for wisdom. And here I was, still postponing the abandonment of this world's happiness to devote myself to the search. For not just the finding alone, but also the bare search for it, ought to have been preferred above the treasures and kingdoms of this world; better than all bodily pleasures, though they were to be had for the taking."

"A fence to wisdom is silence."

"Wisdom concerns the one Self, knowledge deals with the not-self whilst the understanding is the point of view of the Ego [soul or higher self], or Thinker, or his relation between them."

"Wisdom, actuated and motivated by love, and intelligently applied to world problems, is much needed today... Many more must love with wisdom, and appreciate the group aspiration, before we shall see the next reality to be known and to emerge out of the darkness which we are now in the process of dispelling."

"The storyteller is a man who has counsel for his readers. But if today "having counsel" is beginning to have an old-fashioned ring, this is because the communicability of experience is decreasing. In consequence we have no counsel either for ourselves or for others. After all, counsel is less an answer to a question than a proposal concerning the continuation of a story which is just unfolding. To seek this counsel one would first have to be able to tell the story. ... Counsel woven into the fabric of real life is wisdom. The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out."

"Men are often praised for their sagacity, but all the foresight in the world can't tell a double-yoked egg until it is broken."

"But these are foolish things to all the wise, And I love wisdom more than she loves me; My tendency is to philosophise On most things, from a tyrant to a tree; But still the spouseless virgin Knowledge flies, What are we? and whence come we? what shall be Our ultimate existence? What's our present? Are questions answerless, and yet incessant."

"Perhaps that is the only wisdom there really is, young Mage: that our choices matter."

"It seems the part of wisdom."

"Wisdom and goodness are twin-born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart."