All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.
Patience is the companion of wisdom.
To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom.
Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;
It is a characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.
People grow old indeed, but who grows wise?
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Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.
Happiness is the goal of philosophy. Or to be more precise, the goal of philosophy is wisdom, and therefore happiness.
Wisdom is harmony.
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Silence is often the truest wisdom.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
It is not wise to be wiser than is necessary.
Never does nature say one thing and wisdom another.
Of all the things which wisdom provides to make us entirely happy, much the greatest is the possession of friendship.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness.
This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.
Wisdom leads us back to childhood.
A loving heart is the truest wisdom.
Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom.
Wisdom comes not from reason but from love.
There is no justice in putting strength on a level above wisdom.
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.
I was allowed free run of the library and I stormed human wisdom.
There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.
They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.
Of all our possessions, wisdom alone is imortal.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Music is a higher revelation than all wisdom and philosophy.
Wisdom is the daughter of experience.
The ability of calm reflection is the beginning of all wisdom, the source of all goodness !
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