"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."

"Die Weisheit ist nur in der Wahrheit."

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

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

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

"The words of the wise are as goads."

"In much wisdom is much grief."

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

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

"Some people are more nice than wise."

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

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

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

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

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

"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."

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

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

"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."

"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."

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

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

"There is no wisdom without leisure."

"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;"

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

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

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

"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."

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

"'Tis held that sorrow makes us wise."

"Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers."

"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."

"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."

"If you listen well enough, even the emptiness will whisper wisdom."

"Those who get it obtain friendship with God."

"The beginning of wisdom is the most sincere desire for instruction."