Wisdom

"It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own."

"I shall maintain that there simply is no such thing as philosophical knowledge, nor any philosophical way of knowing anything, and defend the humble point that philosophy is indeed the love of wisdom."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise."

"Nor is he the wisest man who never proved himself a fool."

"It is a confusion to present the items of one sort in the idioms of another -- without awareness. For to do this is not just to cross two different sorts; it is to confuse them. It is to mistake, for example, the theory for the fact, the procedure for the process, the myth for history, the model for the thing and the metaphor for the face of literal truth."

"The wisest man is he who can account for his actions."

"Experience is the only source of wisdom: by which I mean, the competent conduct of life."

"Wisdom is oftimes nearer when we stoop Than when we soar."

"σοφίαν δὲ τὸ μέγιστον ἀγαθὸν οὐ δοκεῖ σοι ἀπείργουσα τῶν ἀνθρώπων ἡ ἀκρασία εἰς τοὐναντίον αὐτοὺς ἐμβάλλειν; ἢ οὐ δοκεῖ σοι προσέχειν τε τοῖς ὠφελοῦσι καὶ καταμανθάνειν αὐτὰ κωλύειν, ἀφέλκουσα ἐπὶ τὰ ἡδέα, καὶ πολλάκις αἰσθανομένους τῶν ἀγαθῶν τε καὶ τῶν κακῶν ἐκπλήξασα ποιεῖν τὸ χεῖρον ἀντὶ τοῦ βελτίονος αἱρεῖσθαι;"

"There is no wisdom without leisure."

"And wisdom is a butterfly And not a gloomy bird of prey."

"On every thorn, delightful wisdom grows, In every rill a sweet instruction flows."

"Be wise to-day; 'tis madness to defer; Next day the fatal precedent will plead; Thus on, till wisdom is push'd out of life."

"Wisdom, though richer than Peruvian mines, And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive, What is she, but the means of happiness? That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool."

"The man of wisdom is the man of years."

"But wisdom, awful wisdom! which inspects, Discerns, compares, weighs, separates, infers, Seizes the right, and holds it to the last."

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

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

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

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

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

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

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

"Some people are more nice than wise."

"But they whom truth and wisdom lead Can gather honey from a weed."

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

"In much wisdom is much grief."

"The words of the wise are as goads."

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

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

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

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

"The heart is wiser than the intellect."

"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."

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

"In youth and beauty wisdom is but rare!"

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

"Utiliumque sagax rerum et divina futuri."

"Sapere aude."

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

"He taketh the wise in their own craftiness."

"Wisdom shall die with you."

"The price of wisdom is above rubies."

"Days should speak, and multitude of years should teach wisdom."

"Great men are not always wise."

"Away, thou strange justifier of thyself, to be wiser than thou wert, by the event."

"Victrix fortunæ sapientia."

"Il est plus aisé d'être sage pour les autres, que pour soi-même."

"Quisquis plus justo non sapit, ille sapit."