Suppose that we are wise enough to learn and know -- and yet not wise enough to control our learning and knowledge, so that we use it to destroy ourselves? Even if that is so, knowledge remains better than ignorance. It is better to know -- even if the knowledge endures only for the moment that comes before destruction -- than to gain eternal life at the price of a dull and swinish lack of comprehension of a universe that swirls unseen before us in all its wonder. That was the choice of Achilles, and it is mine, too.

Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the wise. Seek what they sought.

Wise men still seek Him today.

The live in wisdom who see themselves in all and all in them, who have renounced every selfish desire and sense craving tormenting the heart.

In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.

The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. [Psalms 19:7]

Through wisdom is a house built; and by understanding it is established; and by knowledge shall every room be filled with precious and pleasant riches.

The price of wisdom is eternal thought.

What is the price of experience? Do men buy it for a song? Or wisdom for a dance in the street? No, it is bought with the price of all the man hath, his house, his wife, his children.

True wisdom lies in gathering the precious things out of each day as it goes by.

Time ripens all things; no man is born wise.

A wise man thinks what is easy is difficult.

Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of face within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.

Raphael paints wisdom; Handel sings it, Phidias carves it, Shakespeare writes it, Wren builds it, Columbus sails it, Luther preaches it, Washington arms it, Watt mechanizes it.

Wisdom is like electricity. There is no permanently wise man, but men capable of wisdom, who, being put into certain company, or other favorable conditions, become wise for a short time, as glasses rubbed acquire electric power for a while.

Wisdom is knowing when to speak your mind and when to mind your speech.

Where there is charity and wisdom, there is neither fear nor ignorance. Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor vexation. Where there is poverty and joy, there is neither greed nor avarice. Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

The doors of wisdom are never shut.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

The man who questions opinions is wise. The man who quarrels with facts is a fool.

This is the highest wisdom that I own; freedom and life are earned by those alone who conquer them each day anew.

I have known it for a long time but I have only just experienced it. Now I know it not only with my intellect, but with my eyes, with my heart, with my stomach.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Wisdom is not wisdom when it is derived from books alone.

It is more easy to be wise for others than for ourselves.

By the time your life is finished, you will have learned just enough to begin it well.

No matter how long he lives, no man ever becomes as wise as the average woman of forty-eight.

Does wisdom perhaps appear on the earth as a raven which is inspired by the smell of carrion?

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

Wisdom is always an overmatch for strength.

A wise man never knows all, only fools know everything

The heart of the wise man lies quiet like limpid water.

It is not wise to be wiser than necessary.

More wisdom is latent in things as they are than in all the words men use.

They would need to be already wise, in order to love wisdom.

To be wise and love exceeds man's might.

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

Wisdom and understanding can only become the possession of individual men by travelling the old road of observation, attention, perseverance, and industry.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Wisdom is perishable. Unlike information or knowledge, it cannot be stored in a computer or recorded in a book. It expires with each passing generation.

A man never reaches that dizzy height of wisdom that he can no longer be lead by the nose.

Understanding the limitations of human beings as well as understanding your own is the beginning of true wisdom.

Without wisdom, knowledge is more stupid than ignorance.

He is a hard man who is only just, and a sad one who is only wise.

Wisdom is the power to put our time and our knowledge to the proper use.

Wisdom begins at the end.

If you wish to know the road up the mountain, ask the man who goes back and forth on it.