Wisdom

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest

Knowledge itself is power

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

Know or listen to those who know

Cleverness is not wisdom

It is the nature of the wise to resist pleasures, but the foolish to be a slave to them

Wisdom begins in wonder

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It's being able to differentiate between what you know and what you don't

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life.

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse

Wisdom is a sacred communion.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers

To conquer fear is the beginning of wisdom

One should take good care not to grow too wise for so great a pleasure of life as laughter

The road to excess leads to the palace of wisdom...for we never know what is enough until we know what is more than enough

I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place

One wise man's verdict outweighs all the fools

Everything has been said, and we have come too late, now that men have been living and thinking for seven thousand years and more